Detected hard disk geometry changed after installing FC2T2

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Fri Apr 2 19:20:38 UTC 2004


Hi Shrek-m,

> - kernel 2.6 doesn't try to give the logical geometry, and gives the
>   physical geometry instead [2]

Now what I don't understand is why the kernel gets involved with booting
another OS... I thought that was up to the boot loader.

Instead of tweaking the bios can't one pass the (expected) disk geometry
via grub?

Leonard.

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mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research






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