on 9/15/2011 1:57 PM Jerry Geis spake the following: > I am getting the WRONG values reported from fdisk on centos 6. > This is listing an 8G CF card on /dev/sde > > Disk /dev/sde: 8019 MB, 8019099648 bytes > 247 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 15314 * 512 = 7840768 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xd1b46611 > > > It should be 255 heads, 63 sectors/track. > > Under centos 5 this is reported correctly. > > I even tried specifying the -S 63 -H 255 on the fdisk command line - > that did not help. > > my symptom is when I setup my CF card to run linux - I get a grub error 2. > > What kind of madness is happening? > > Jerry I think the fdisk in 6 tries to align on 4k boundaries. Does fdisk -c do the same thing?