So that it matches any partitioning/formatting done on the target's BIOS. Also, if the geometry is C=992/H=64/S=63, and the starting cylinder is shown by fdisk as 100, then how do you calculate the -o argument to losetup to figure out the offset in bytes?
Thanks. On 12/02/2009 07:25 PM, Terry Markovich wrote: > 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].
