Re: 2.6 kernel

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

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