[Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Tue Jun 2 07:48:47 EDT 2009


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? ;-)

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