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Robert Crawford wrote: |
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> I'm virtually certain re-writing the partition table is going to require a |
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> reboot. |
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Just umount everything and re-write the partition table. No reboot needed. I |
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did it hundred of times. |
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> BTW, over the years I've had several drives with the "over 1024" cylinder |
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> message, and it has never been a problem with many versions of linux, |
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> including Gentoo, so that shouldn't be a problem using any modern distro. |
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That's a limitation of the BIOS. Some BIOS are not able to read past the 1023 |
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cylinder, but it's not a problem anymore. |
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Best Regards, |
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Norberto Bensa |
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Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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