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Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:01:03PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:

> The only problem is that your BIOS will probably not be able
> to boot from it

You seem to misunderstand the boot sequence.
The BIOS does not generally do any parsing of partition tables.