From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.51: new warning from lilo
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:11:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021213141127.GA1633@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1039789418.25121.25.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:23:38PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for
> > device 0x80
> > Kernel: 8944 cylidners, 15 heads, 63 sectors
> > BIOS: 525 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
> >
> > lilo did not warn under 2.5.50. Now... Will it boot?
>
> Someone took various bits of geometry mapping out of the kernel. It will
> now give different values. As to whether lilo will still boot I don't
> know. I'd be suprised if it was a problem.
Hasn't caused a problem on any of my test boxes.
Dave
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-13 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-12 19:34 2.5.51: new warning from lilo Pavel Machek
2002-12-13 14:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-13 13:46 ` Pavel Machek
2002-12-13 14:11 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-12-13 18:02 ` Andries Brouwer
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