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From: Luis Miguel Garcia <ktech@wanadoo.es>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 01:09:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030624010906.08ad32f3.ktech@wanadoo.es> (raw)

hello

I'm getting this while running lilo from kernel 2.5.72mm2. What does it means?

Could it be dangerous?

Thanks.



bash-2.05b# lilo
Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for device 0x80
    Kernel: 13424 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 sectors
      BIOS: 788 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
Added 2572mm2
Added 2573desktop
Added 2421-ck1 *


             reply	other threads:[~2003-06-23 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-23 23:09 Luis Miguel Garcia [this message]
2003-06-23 23:39 ` Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries Andries Brouwer
2003-06-24  0:31   ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-24  8:14     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-06-24  3:45   ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-24  4:22     ` Werner Almesberger
2003-06-24  4:27       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-24 11:13         ` Werner Almesberger
2003-06-24 15:29           ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-24 15:42             ` John Coffman

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