From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: GuangXu Liu <lgxror@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: does disk geometry depend on partition table?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:36:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163522195.12931.3.camel@basalt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4843e530611132103o3ff6d762l61c628ea5fd102e7@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 13:03 +0800, Zhixu Liu wrote:
> Hi, Hollis,
>
> We've tried something like this, and found it works for some platform,
> but still failed for one platform.
> Indeed, in this weird platform, we get both wrong CHS value with and
> without partition table. But the OS always
> get the correct value. The problem is due to either BIOS or Disk for
> this particular platform, we think. But we're not clear.
That platform must have a BIOS bug and we have no known workaround. :/
> Anyway, the patch works for some cases, and should for most cases.
OK. I will commit this soon unless I hear an objection.
-Hollis
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-14 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-06 9:07 does disk geometry depend on partition table? Zhixu Liu
2006-11-14 3:40 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-14 5:03 ` Zhixu Liu
2006-11-14 16:36 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
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