Re: Unbootable machine

[Bernie Innocenti <bernie codewiz org>]

On 06/02/09 07:10, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> Ok, I wiped mbr and made fdisk create a new one:
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 2055 MB, 2055208960 bytes
>> 64 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Equally weird.  The only "standard" ones are 64 heads, 32 sectors and
> 255 heads, 63 sectors.

Shouldn't fdisk guess these values automagically?
And, more importantly, who are we going to blame if it doesn't? ;-)

-- 
   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
 \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/