Re: 2.6.x partition breakage and dual booting

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sun May 30 2004 - 13:57:51 EST


Andries Brouwer wrote:
The link you give describes a user space problem.
The fdisk versions that I maintain all work fine - apparently
Fedora Core uses something else to change partition tables,
and that something else makes assumptions that are invalid.
(Maybe it uses parted?)

I can tell you in great detail all about disk geometry,
and the 2.4 situation and the 2.6 situation.


Please educate me :) Brutally, and in public :)

Jeff


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