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SubjectRe: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:24:52PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:28:54AM +0530, Apurva Mehta wrote:
>
> > On 2.6.0-testx kernels, I have noticed that there are problems with
> > GNU Parted. Parted says that the disk geometries reported by the
> > kernel are incorrect.
>
> Yes. Parted should be fixed not to complain.
> There is no such thing as a "correct" disk geometry.

Yes there is. "Correct" is defined by the BIOS. It is important
for boot loaders (in particular Windows). I'm not sure if this
is still a big issue worth worrying about.

Cheers,
Andrew

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