Re: [Fwd: Debian specific Partition problme]

["Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote:

->I'm guessing it's that the boot disks from Debian are from the 
->kernel 2.0.x series.  It may report different values to fdisk.
->Actually, it seems that the debian 2.1 fdisk (kernel 2.0.x) are
->reporting physical disk geometry, while the other distros
->(probably using kernel 2.2.x series) report translated (lba)
->geometry.
->

Thanks for the reply. I always create a /boot partition of 15MB, there
was no problem working with the disk.  What amaged me was the geometry
problem.  As you said it could be due to 2.0.x series kernel.  I will
upgrade the kernel and see if there is any change.

Thanks
Nagarjuna
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