From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry"
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:27:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031214112728.A8201@animx.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031214144046.GA11870@win.tue.nl>; from Andries Brouwer on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:40:46PM +0100
> > The script does use sfdisk to aquire the size and the user tells it just how
> > large the partition to be and defaulting to the largest possible. If the
> > geometry is wrong, the other OS won't boot.
>
> What interests me is: do you need varying geometry?
> That is: do you sometimes need */16/63 and sometimes */255/63
> or even other values?
>
> Or does it suffice to take */255/63 always?
I would say most cases use the 255/63, but I'm not 100% sure on that, just
with drives >4gb. Is there anyway to query the bios to ask it?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-14 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-12 18:17 2.6 and IDE "geometry" Wakko Warner
2003-12-12 19:44 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-12 21:35 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-13 13:22 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-13 22:18 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-14 14:40 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-14 16:27 ` Wakko Warner [this message]
2003-12-14 20:27 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-14 21:23 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-14 22:03 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-15 20:02 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-16 20:55 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-17 15:42 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-16 13:53 ` Sven Luther
2003-12-16 17:17 ` John Bradford
2003-12-17 15:40 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-17 16:16 ` Richard B. Johnson
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