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From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.51: new warning from lilo
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:02:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021213180215.GA10777@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021212193451.GA458@elf.ucw.cz>

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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-13 17:54 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
2002-12-13 18:02 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]

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