From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk geometry from /sys
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:52:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080410145255.GC2160@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JjiaS-0005QV-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:16:12AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Unfortunatelly there is also bios' view of the geometry, which is especially
> a problem for boot loaders. Just another hint:
>
> # lilo -T geom
>
> bios=0x00, cylinders=80, heads=2, sectors=18
> ( 1.44Mb 2,880 sectors) C:H:S supported (PC bios)
>
> BIOS reports 2 hard drives
> bios=0x80, cylinders=527, heads=255, sectors=63 vol-ID: 2C731DD1
> ( 4.33Gb 8,467,199 sectors) LBA32 supported (EDD bios)
> bios=0x81, cylinders=527, heads=255, sectors=63
> ( 4.33Gb 8,467,199 sectors) LBA32 supported (EDD bios)
>
> (um yes my system is somewhat outdated, thats an adaptec scsi bios.
Just use LBA. Both lilo and grub can, in which case they no longer care
about the geometry at all.
--
Len Sorensen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-10 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-09 20:53 Disk geometry from /sys Francis Moreau
2008-04-09 21:28 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-09 21:52 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-09 22:16 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-04-10 14:52 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2008-04-10 19:23 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-09 21:57 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-10 19:05 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-10 19:53 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-10 12:22 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-04-10 19:15 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-10 13:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-04-14 12:57 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-15 7:40 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-16 7:49 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-17 14:09 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-17 14:49 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-18 13:22 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-18 13:37 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-22 20:11 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-23 6:44 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-23 6:56 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-22 20:16 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-22 22:44 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-23 6:53 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-23 7:02 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-23 9:33 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-23 13:47 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-22 20:10 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-23 6:48 ` Seewer Philippe
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