2.6 kernel

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Dec 16 17:21:30 UTC 2003


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





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