Comment 80 for bug 403408

Thanks JedMeister, I'll be more careful to stay on topic.

Regarding Blocks vs Clusters? A user above mentioned that he expected his LBA, large block addressing, might overcome the drive size problem. It works by increasing the number of sectors that are grouped into one disk writing unit so that there are less units, few enough that the number does not exceed the maximum number that the bios is capable of counting. I'm a little confused because this group of sectors was called a cluster in the past, but LBA uses the term "block".

My bios has a large disk access choice of dos vs. other. Under "other" it advises that unix, novell and other operating systems may have a different way of handling large drives. It was set for dos, but ubuntu lists the xp partition as ntfs. I was tempted to change this as a fix but I am worried about affecting the xp reading ability. furthermore, how would it read the disk in order to boot? Does anyone know how this works?

If I place a boot partition at the beginning of the first partition on the drive, as mentioned above, what will happen to the pre-existing xp installation? Will it move the xp installation or will it overwrite it?

When I went to reinstall ubuntu, the partitioner screen showed a duplicate copy so I deleted and formatted but I still have 2 choices for ubuntu on the grub operating system choices. How did you all avoid this when you reinstalled? I have xp already on the disk, did any of you have a dual boot situation and encounter the same problem?

Thanks,
Jim