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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2004-03-22 22:53:47
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Hi Szaka, On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > I will add support for doing the HDIO_GETGEO to libntfs soon and modify > > > mkntfs to use it + add a command line option then we can try it and see if > > > it makes bootable partitions... > > > > Please set the sectors/track and heads field at the same as well. Probably > > they are also needed and they are also included in the struct hd_geometry. > > I just tried and they are indeed needed to be set _also_. So all the three > must be set otherwise XP won't boot, boot just hangs with black screen > before anything would happen. Ok. I will do that. Hopefully tomorrow. The question is now whether we want to use the Linux kernel's idea of the geometry or the BIOS (they can often differ). I will go with using the kernel's idea for now. Perhaps you could test again (I will let you know when I have done the code) and if it works for you we can release it and see if anyone ever complains... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
