Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:42:46 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry" |
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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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