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...neighborhood. If there is a place to - for once - state how a "normal" partition table should look like, then there. The user of partitioning tools shall rather be directed to the text which currently evolves at http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/User:Scdbackup#New_Common_Problems_Bad_Heritage_on_MS_DOS_disk and only at the end of that section, there will be a link to Hardware_Compatibility#USB-Geometry. > Once the user chooses the partitioning tool, he has to change the > geometry to make it adequate. Whether the alignment is one or the > other, it shouldn't matter (in the context of...

Hi, Ady wrote: > I would suggest adding an internal link to respctive sections of the > wiki, not more text in the same page. This is reasonable. Please have a look at http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/User:Scdbackup The first section shall become the new text of http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk The second section shall become a new

Hi, i have now sparsely modified the last paragraph of http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk added a new section http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Common_Problems#Bad_Heritage_on_MS_DOS_disk and a new article http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/What_is_a_SYSLINUX_disk_%3F My proposal is to place a link to the new article at all wiki occasions, where the reader might wonder what exactly is meant with "disk". See my link "disk" in the modified paragraph of SYSL...

...s a place to - for once - state how a "normal" partition > table should look like, then there. > > The user of partitioning tools shall rather be directed to > the text which currently evolves at > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/User:Scdbackup#New_Common_Problems_Bad_Heritage_on_MS_DOS_disk > and only at the end of that section, there will be a link > to Hardware_Compatibility#USB-Geometry. > > > > Once the user chooses the partitioning tool, he has to change the > > geometry to make it adequate. Whether the alignment is one or the > > other, it shoul...

...d for mkdiskimage. But a DOS line with mkdiskimage is by far easier to document than a GUI session. Further it would follow the tradition of syslinux.exe examples in the main wiki. > And, not every fail in SYSLINUX is related to inadequate > partitioning. I will graft this statement into Bad_Heritage_on_MS_DOS_disk. > I would suggest not using the work "disk". It is frequently > misinterpreted, specially when used near "MS-DOS". We are talking > about "partition tables". I am unhappy with "disk" too. But that change would have a much wider scope in the tex...