Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry" | Date | 16 Dec 2003 20:55:01 GMT |
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In article <20031214202741.GA11909@win.tue.nl>, Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote: | On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: | | > > Or does it suffice to take */255/63 always? | > | > I would say most cases use the 255/63 | | Good. So you can try constant geometry setting with *fdisk. | | > with drives >4gb. Is there anyway to query the bios to ask it? | | 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.
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. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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