[ltp] Removing the pre-desktop area

[mukesh agrawal]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Paul Boehm wrote:

> even more annoying is that the bios still reports a wrong geometry
> even after disabling the predesktop area. i've tried fiddling with the
> bios, grub, parted, fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, and all of them are unable to
> help.

no idea. i actually took the disk out and put it into another machine, and
STILL get the wrong geometry.

my t40 came with a FUJITSU MHS2030AT, which shows up as a 52502322*512
byte drive. this doesn't make sense for any definition of 30GB. (even if
you take GB==10^9 bytes, rather than 2^30)

so i think the drive itself is configured to lie about its geometry, to
hide the recovery area from the OS.