[syslinux] Unbootable machine

Gilles Espinasse g.esp at free.fr
Tue Jun 2 07:20:32 PDT 2009


Selon "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at 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

Possible to make usb images from sfdisk
echo -e "0,,6,*\n;\n;\n;" | sfdisk -qLD -H 64 -S 32 $(IMGhdd)

echo -e "0,0\n 0,0\n 0,0\n,,6,*" | sfdisk -qLD -H 64 -S 32 $(IMGzip)

Gilles




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