This is important information and I wonder if it is mentioned in the
installation manual (for Intel arch)? If not, it should be, IMO.
<quote>
If possible, fdisk will obtain the disk geometry automati-
cally. This is not necessarily the physical disk geometry
(indeed, modern disks do not really have anything like a
physical geometry, certainly not something that can be
described in simplistic Cylinders/Heads/Sectors form), but
is the disk geometry that MS-DOS uses for the partition
table.
Usually all goes well by default, and there are no prob-
lems if Linux is the only system on the disk. However, if
the disk has to be shared with other operating systems, it
is often a good idea to let an fdisk from another operat-
ing system make at least one partition. When Linux boots
it looks at the partition table, and tries to deduce what
(fake) geometry is required for good cooperation with
other systems.
</quote>
-- fdisk man page.
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