2.6 kernel
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Tue Dec 16 17:43:30 UTC 2003
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 12:21, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:15:29AM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> > As I mentioned in a previous message, I was having problems installing the
> > development tree because the LBA disk parameters were not recognized
> > properly. Although I am willing to put up with a lots of stuff testing
> > systems, I have no desire to just screw up my harddisks (even on a test
> > system).
>
> Make sure you report this Bartlomiej. The 2.6 tree does a lot less with
> geometry than 2.4. Andries took out a lot of the handling because the kernel
> itself doesnt really care and the methods for playing guess the bios mapping
> are heuristics at best and belong in tools like anaconda.
>
> I don't know if Anaconda has been taught to do disk geometry work in the disk
> sizer yet or not
parted has had no work done in this area that I know of. *sigh* :/
Of course, with the little that it matters, it may well be irrelevant
and I should just suppress the warning message.
Jeremy
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