From: Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.40 etc and IDE HDisk geometry
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 07:48:46 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA0AFBE.935D25BA@bigpond.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021004215049.GA20192@win.tue.nl
Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:47:16PM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:
>
> > Question is - what is determining that initial value that becomes the "logical"
> > CHS, and does it matter?
>
> No, it does not matter at all.
> CHS are meaningless numbers not used anywhere anymore in Linux.
>
> If you want to influence what geometry *fdisk will use, give it
> the appropriate options or commands. No need to go via the kernel.
> But only in rare cases is it necessary to worry about geometry.
Like LILO. It complains that the partition tables don't match the
geometry, or somesuch, despite an explicit "lba32".
Maybe I should start looking at grub, assuming it doesn't do the same.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-06 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-04 13:47 2.5.40 etc and IDE HDisk geometry Allan Duncan
2002-10-04 21:50 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-10-05 19:30 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-10-06 21:48 ` Allan Duncan [this message]
2002-10-06 23:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-10-07 0:19 ` Werner Almesberger
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