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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Subject: Re: RealTek 8168B/8111B, new revision (ISO-request)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:05:36 -0700 (PDT)
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:Well, the two kernel messages about the sector size disappeared; however,  
:fdisk keeps complaining about "length" not being a multiple of the sector  
:size. I'm not sure whether this warning/error is fatal in the sense that  
:it would cause the installer to abort -- is it? I'm also not sure if the  
:sector size the stick appears to have is actually correct... maybe it's  
:detected incorrectly?

    Most flash hard disks use a 512 byte sector size but 2048 bytes is not
    unheard of.

    I'm not sure what we can do about this last error about length not
    being a multiple of the sector size.  It is trying to install /boot/mbr,
    which is 512 bytes, on a device with 2K sectors.  I have no idea what
    the proper course of action is in that case.

    If you don't need to boot from the flash stick and you don't need for
    it to be portable you can just avoid using fdisk entirely and disklabel
    the unit directly (disklabel -r -w da0s0 auto).

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>