Robert Crawford wrote: > I'm virtually certain re-writing the partition table is going to require a > reboot.
Just umount everything and re-write the partition table. No reboot needed. I did it hundred of times. > > BTW, over the years I've had several drives with the "over 1024" cylinder > message, and it has never been a problem with many versions of linux, > including Gentoo, so that shouldn't be a problem using any modern distro. > That's a limitation of the BIOS. Some BIOS are not able to read past the 1023 cylinder, but it's not a problem anymore. Best Regards, -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
