From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alessandro Baretta Subject: Re: Linear mode: array size is less than sum of sizes Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 23:14:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4B439BC8.1030908@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B439BC8.1030908@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid Cc: "john.robinson" List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi again John. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:06 PM, John Robinson wrote: > > I don't really know how safe it is, but I don't like your 16002-sector > thingy. If you're going to do this I can't help thinking you should > duplicate the real partition table, showing the partition starting on sector > 63, so you want 63 extra sectors, not 16002. You might do it using a file on > your filesystem via loopback instead of messing about with a silly > 1-cylinder partition. You were right. No way to get the Windows bootloader to even try starting up Windows unless the windows partition is exactly at the safe offset from as it is in the original drive. Too bad that Windows dies with a BSOD while booting... That's with qemu-kvm 0.11.0 and Linux 2.6.30 on Debian Sneezy. Oh, well. I'll just try to avoid booting into Windows... Alex