2.5.51: new warning from lilo

2.5.51: new warning from lilo

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

Lilo now presents me with new warning:

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?
								Pavel
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Re: 2.5.51: new warning from lilo

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:34, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Lilo now presents me with new warning:
> 
> 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. 

Alan

Re: 2.5.51: new warning from lilo

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Lilo now presents me with new warning:
> > 
> > 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. 

It still boots.
								Pavel

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Re: 2.5.51: new warning from lilo

[Dave Jones]

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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Re: 2.5.51: new warning from lilo

[Andries Brouwer]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:34:51PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Lilo now presents me with new warning:
> 
> 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?

That depends on the options you gave it.
With linear or lba32 the geometry does not play any role.
If you don't give these options then the geometry does play
a role, at least for the versions of LILO I have looked at.
You can give LILO explicit geometry options if for some
reason you do not want to use "linear".

Andries