From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 01:22:20 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030624012220.E1418@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd8hgj$cas$1@cesium.transmeta.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 08:45:23PM -0700
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Actually, unless you have it "linear" or "lba32", LILO *does* use
> CHS. Unfortunately.
Distribution makers shouldn't be overly impressed by this default,
and just put "lba32" into any new lilo.conf they generate, or at
least offer the option to do so.
Keeping the old CHS default makes sure that people upgrading LILO
on an already configured (and probably quite ancient) system that
really needs CHS don't get a nasty surprise.
- Werner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-24 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-23 23:09 Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries Luis Miguel Garcia
2003-06-23 23:39 ` 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 [this message]
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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