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From: "Jake McHenry" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 02:06:26PM -0400
To Shrike
Subject: Re: Windows needs Heads = 255
> you'll need to create two ntfs or dos partitions for winxp, and at least
> that for linux... both OS's need their boot partition within the first 2 gb
> of the drive... so create your /boot partition.. say 1gb.. and your C:\ say
> 1gb.. both at the beginning of the drive, then use the rest of the drive for
> your other partitions..
>
Uh,Oh! The thread has gone out of the way. The issue here is not if the
primary should fall within a particular range but the no. of heads win
needs to read the partition table. Here is my current part. table:
Disk /dev/hde: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 32 257008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde2 33 64 257040 83 Linux
/dev/hde3 65 2167 16892347+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde4 2169 9728 60725700 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hde5 2169 2315 1180746 83 Linux
/dev/hde6 2316 2462 1180746 82 Linux swap
/dev/hde7 2463 5259 22466871 83 Linux
/dev/hde8 5260 5384 1004031 82 Linux swap
Linux reverts back the no of heads to 16 if the partition table is
created by it, but then win or dos boot floppy is unable to read it.
Anyway, thanks for trying.
Regards,
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