Re: Cannot boot the real thing from HDD

Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-08T12:58:46Z

It looks much better now. Thank you very much in deed :)

I have some good news too, I'll make followup of the primary stream of
this thread.

Thanks,
Paul

On Sat, 8 Feb 2020, Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau wrote:

> As you want Sir... :-)
>
> Renamed 'track' to 'cylinder' in commit:
>
> https://github.com/elks-org/elks/commit/6b06204d2eb3a312bc13a5225dd93693dbd352d0
>
> MFLD
>
>
> > On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Paul Osmialowski wrote:
> >
> > > Pressed send too fast.
> > >
> > > Tracks usually means cylinders * heads.
> > > Heads usually means tracks per cylinder.
> > >
> > > Still, to avoid confusions like that, this option should be renamed to
> > > 'cylinders' and accept relevant part of C/H/S geometry.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Paul Osmialowski wrote:
> > >
> > > > Also I think the name of config option in kernel configuration is
> > > > misleading. Tracks refers to number of tracks per cylinder which is
> > > > heads
> > > > * sectors. I assume what this option really expects is 'cylinders', and
> > > > IMO should be named that way.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Paul
>