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From: cinap_lenrek@gmx.de
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:10:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <522b29160411a636c2b2a8a6b3d76d90@rei2.9hal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c246e87-181f-456f-b12d-5f5553fa0931@px4g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>

theres a bug in plan9 fdisk causing partitions to get forcefully
rounded to cylinder boundries. causing existing partitions
to "move" even if they where never modified due to wrong
disk geometry detection or just non-cylinder-aligned
partitioning.

this was fixed in 9front long ago.

--
cinap



  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-23 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-20  9:54 Sauparna
2012-03-20 10:15 ` tlaronde
2012-03-20 10:21   ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-20 10:20 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-03-23  9:58 ` Sauparna
2012-03-23  9:58 ` Sauparna
2012-03-23 12:10   ` cinap_lenrek [this message]
2012-03-23  9:59 ` Sauparna
     [not found] ` <1c246e87-181f-456f-b12d-5f5553fa0931@px4g2000pbc.googlegroups.co>
2012-03-23 10:12   ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-23 16:07     ` Sauparna
2012-03-26  9:27     ` Sauparna
2012-03-30 15:13       ` Sauparna

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