From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Gk1HH-0007iE-VN for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:36:52 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gk1HD-0007fJ-BL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:36:47 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gk1HB-0007cz-B1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:36:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gk1H9-0007cG-Uv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:36:44 -0500 Received: from [32.97.182.146] (helo=e6.ny.us.ibm.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gk1HA-0005z1-2I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:36:44 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kAEGb2Op023238 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:37:02 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id kAEGafSx293484 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:36:42 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kAEGaeDL025569 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:36:41 -0500 Received: from [9.53.41.42] (basalt.austin.ibm.com [9.53.41.42]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kAEGaeoj025381; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:36:40 -0500 From: Hollis Blanchard To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: References: <1163475639.30879.25.camel@diesel> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:36:35 -0600 Message-Id: <1163522195.12931.3.camel@basalt> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: GuangXu Liu Subject: Re: does disk geometry depend on partition table? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:36:49 -0000 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