As far as I know, the number of heads and sectors-per-track bximage reports is just a convenient fiction. Cylinders * heads * spt * 512(block size) = image size.
Why do you need that specific geometry? Terry Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > I'm trying to "pre-image" Astlinux for a CF of a given size and geometry, but > when I do: > > ./bximage -q -hd -mode=flat -size=1953 runnix.img > > fdisk reports back to me that the partition table of the image runnix.img is > C=3968, H=16, S=63. > > I need it to be H=64, S=63 to be correct. > > Anyone know how to force "bximage" to a particular geometry? I was looking > at the documentation: > > http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/using-bximage.html > > and that doesn't seem to be an option. > > Anyone? > > Thanks, > > -Philip > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, > a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. > Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [email protected]. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
