From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S4Iht-0001CD-H6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:11:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34DD4E0832; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD7C2E0832 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:09:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekb47 with SMTP id b47so1291883eek.40 for ; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:09:47 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of emailgrant@gmail.com designates 10.14.136.10 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.14.136.10; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of emailgrant@gmail.com designates 10.14.136.10 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=emailgrant@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=emailgrant@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.14.136.10]) by 10.14.136.10 with SMTP id v10mr1056088eei.76.1330895387193 (num_hops = 1); Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:09:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=hDocvifEn/HnsmCkwgwoiZ5CbxNxLY6zkzymmi8KaAM=; b=H9mVsgznFKinFisCT9avAETHnPWQVRpoYGzCVbSj2WVxaRz3joumj084OWjo9sYDx9 LEVDOsgyk0fZ+52uPoScHaN7uHtoDXVTM7rUeraY1nHpWwZiOazcZrik2iHiwdEScThe b7u1qamFTuCw7Q4cvUSE49SLNPWlaDVkpeJIpiRF1IYiWVF9G2LoGs/9khqFSvrRFDnc 9HlJYfYFTiOa8THYpxhRRfr6Atqi29oLGTRvA+RWGvHABuxGrb8V/nOPpMBCaNjS3ryi 75ixt8788HCUGVMHGIxD9aGr/BEZRUmMvc7PMftzRo2tcx+k4jI25ejfVuR9HpBHFVV0 Yrtg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.136.10 with SMTP id v10mr775325eei.76.1330895387124; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:09:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.113.148 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:09:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:09:47 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 5a3fcd1f-448d-44af-9214-07eaa27e93ea X-Archives-Hash: ed4826bc72dfe763078e1845ee19a588 [snip] >> 1. fdisk won't let me specify a start block before 2048 even though I >> deleted all partitions. >> > > That's normal. It's a long story, but Windows Vista and Windows 7 expects > the first partition to start at sector 2048. > > You can force a lower number by toggling "DOS compatibility"; this should > let you start the first partition as low as sector 63. > > HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, > 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that the > hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. I just looked up the start block for my other systems and they're all on 63. Is performance impacted on all of these systems since they aren't started on 64? - Grant