Installer seems to overwrite partition table

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Apr 15 11:39:11 PDT 2008


:Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
:> Didn't I want to change the default back to -C?  I think it is very bad t=
:> o create a slice table which hangs some machines.
:
:Yep, but I think Matt was against it. I wouldn't change the default 
:itself, but instead modify the installer to use -C by default (or at 
:least make it an option).
:
:Regards,
:
:   Michael

    Using -C will break more things then it will fix.  Hard drives
    have been large enough to overflow the CHS fields for years now, 
    and wrapped values can confuse the hell out of bioses probably even
    worse now verses using all 1's.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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