Re: [TCLUG:17648] Moving the install & Linux fdisk 20gb IDE drive h*ll

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>You really* should be using LBA...

no.
LBA is a kludge done for the sake of Lose95. it can cause you partitioning
problems, and problems mounting those partitions.

if you have a *very* simple partitioning scheme, it probably doesn't matter.
(so if you dual-boot a drive between Windows and Linux, just do swap and
root partitions under Linux). more than a couple of partitions, tho; and
you're on thin ice.

this *has* bitten me in the past. RH6.0 refused to mount a partition at
install time, because the drive was in LBA mode. when i changed it back to
'normal'. everything worked fine.

Carl Soderstrom
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