Anaconda, parted, and geometry

Jason Farrell farrellj at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 02:50:08 UTC 2008


On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:

> This of course also causes programs like "fdisk" and "sfdisk" to
> complain about cylinder boundaries and C,H,S values being incorrect.
>

Another aggravating case I ran into again recently: an fdisk partitioned
16GB Patriot usbkey fails to boot, but when using parted (or gparted to
ever-so-slightly resize) it succeeds.

--Jason
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