Re: [Unattended] #1: boot from USB memory

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#1: boot from USB memory
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 Reporter:  jjp3         |       Owner:  parasytic
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned 
 Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  4.9      
Component:  bootdisk     |     Version:           
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by parasytic):

 parted (at least, version 2.2; linuxboot uses version 1.6.22) can be used
 to get the disk heads/sectors with the 'units' command:

 $ sudo parted -s /dev/sda unit chs print | grep 'geometry' | cut -d ' ' -f
 4
 19452,255,63.

 That can be further parsed to end up with heads=255, sectors=63.  I'll
 experiment with parted 1.6 at some time.  It would be nice to get parted
 up-to-date (currently version 2.3) but tickets #5 and #6 need to be
 addressed, at the least.

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