On Wed, Feb 07, 2007, Warren Turkal wrote: > The output of 'strace -o ~wt/fdisk.strace fdisk -l c0d0' is attached. Ok, so fdisk is more clever than lilo and will compute heads and sectors either by using the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl() or the information from the partition table. I suppose that if the kernel issue can not be solved, we may still implement such a fallback. Thanks for the info, -- Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>