On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:48:04PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
Yeah. But right now the installer doesn't have any data
available about
HPA at all, so it can't do the partitioning right if we're disabling HPA
(which we are).
Right because it was disabled too early for the installer to check
Which means for FC6, we have to disable HPA by default, and
conditionally re-enable it if there's no partition table entry that
points above the top.
You never need to re-enable it. The partition table and partition sizes
define the size of hda1 and fs etc.
Tangentally, I might add that if Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or similar
ever
invent a function like this, we better not screw it up as much as we
have this time, because changing the geometry of another machine's disk
is seriously not fun to recover from. Just my introspective thought for
the day.
If you want real fun try mixing EFI firmware, GPT and HPA. So I really hope HPA
goes away. Its like drive passwords, a fine example of why storage device
designers should be allowed to invent things that are OS matters 8)
> HPA out after the ACPI stuff runs once it is in as on the
thinkpad it also
> edits the HPA settings when those run
OK... is there a patch floating around for the _GTF stuff already? URL?
Also, are (whoever's doing it) doing _GTM/_STM work as well?
The stuff done so far went to l/k and is a work in progress.