On Tue, Oct 12, 2010, Dave Martin wrote:
> So we can make the /boot partition look like it has 63*255 geometry,
> and we can make it start at sector offset 63.

 Right; ideally, we'd offset it so that it's still on a nice boundary
 e.g. we start at sector 512 (1, 8, 8)

> Everything else can be determined based on sane absolute sector offsets.

 yup, using _only_ sector offsets and not caring about chs

> cat <<EOF | sfdisk --force -S$target_fake_spt -H$target_fake_heads -us 
> "$device"

 s/-us/-uS/?

> # --force is needed so that sfdisk accepts the non-cylinder aligned
> partition boundaries.

 Ok; that seems all good!

-- 
Loïc Minier

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