[clug] Overriding the BIOS' impression of a disk

Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au
Wed Oct 29 10:04:51 EST 2003


Andrew Pollock wrote:

> For really weird situations, the apparent (fdisk) geometry can also be 
> specifiedon the kernel "command line" using LILO.  The format of such 
> lines is:

I also found that cfdisk handled large disks more gracefully than fdisk.
OTOH, it could have been the vintage of fdisk I was using.

Antti



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