From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264576AbTDPUKp (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:10:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264577AbTDPUKp (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:10:45 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:65154 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264576AbTDPUKn (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:10:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:22:29 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@aracnet.com, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill ide-geometry.c, fix boot problems Message-ID: <20030416202229.GA30097@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > Now the RedHat installer can do the remap in case it detects > a disk manager. That is nice, because that means that in case of > a whole-disk install it could ask the user whether she wants to > preserve this animal. Probably she doesnt. That is quite nice - ask user at install time whether to remove the disk manager. However, after doing that it seems appropriate for a booting kernel to autodetect the presence or absence of the disk manager and behave accordingly. Just like the user gets to choose what goes in the partition table at install time, and after that it is read automatically. The user does not (usually) have to supply special kernel options to tell it where the partitions are, or what the disk geometry is. The kernel can do that automatically. So why does this not apply to known disk manager remappings? -- Jamie