Re: Unbootable machine

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa zytor com>]

Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>
>> 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? ;-)
> 

I don't know.  It might be an fdisk issue; Linux fdisk has *always*
behaved in this way, but I haven't looked at that code at all.

	-hpa
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