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.
Could you try just one thing more? Place 0xffff into both heads and
sectors_per_track. If that works, try doing the same with hidden_sectors
(obviously 32bit there). I am curios as to whether this will work...
Best regards,
Anton
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