Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry"

[Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>]

Please keep me CCed

> | Yes, and that is what the kernel used to do.
> | In general, however, the answer is unreliable. 
> 
> Unless I misread his question, he didn't ask how to make it reliable,
> he just wants the partitioning software to use it. Not to use something
> he provides by hand, to ask the BIOS and use the numbers, right or
> wrong.

Correct.

> With old BIOS versions I will agree that using any other geometry, no
> matter how correct or reliable, will result in a failure to boot.
> 
> I wish I had an answer to the original question, but I don't. Fdisk
> tries to intuit what partition info if there is at least one partition
> already created, if that's the partitioning software you are already
> using, I can't offer any other help.

I pretty much summed it up in the last message I sent.

If it wasn't for what I'm doing here, I wouldn't have cared.  In some cases,
I don't even use a geometry, I just mke2fs /dev/hdx and use the whole disk. 
But that's only on machines that run linux primarily.

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