From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:42:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:41:59 -0400 Received: from mta01ps.bigpond.com ([144.135.25.133]:10441 "EHLO mta01ps.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:41:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3DA0AFBE.935D25BA@bigpond.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 07:48:46 +1000 From: Allan Duncan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.20-pre9 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andries Brouwer CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.40 etc and IDE HDisk geometry References: <3D9D9BE4.32421A87@bigpond.com> <20021004215049.GA20192@win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.