From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264445AbTLQPfN (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:35:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264446AbTLQPfN (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:35:13 -0500 Received: from dial249.pm3abing3.abingdonpm.naxs.com ([216.98.75.249]:60317 "EHLO animx.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264445AbTLQPfH (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:35:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:42:46 -0500 From: Wakko Warner To: bill davidsen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry" Message-ID: <20031217104246.B13292@animx.eu.org> References: <20031212131704.A26577@animx.eu.org> <20031214144046.GA11870@win.tue.nl> <20031214112728.A8201@animx.eu.org> <20031214202741.GA11909@win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from bill davidsen on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:55:01PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Please keep me CCed > | Yes, and that is what the kernel used to do. > | In general, however, the answer is unreliable. > > Unless I misread his question, he didn't ask how to make it reliable, > he just wants the partitioning software to use it. Not to use something > he provides by hand, to ask the BIOS and use the numbers, right or > wrong. Correct. > With old BIOS versions I will agree that using any other geometry, no > matter how correct or reliable, will result in a failure to boot. > > I wish I had an answer to the original question, but I don't. Fdisk > tries to intuit what partition info if there is at least one partition > already created, if that's the partitioning software you are already > using, I can't offer any other help. I pretty much summed it up in the last message I sent. If it wasn't for what I'm doing here, I wouldn't have cared. In some cases, I don't even use a geometry, I just mke2fs /dev/hdx and use the whole disk. But that's only on machines that run linux primarily. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals