From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Flavio Bruno Leitner <fbl@conectiva.com.br>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IDE disk information changed from 2.4 to 2.6
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:53:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031111115316.GB16163@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0311052031510.1988-100000@mion.elka.pw.edu.pl>
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:41:58PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> In 2.6.x it doesn't even read BIOS info (which is wrong IMO, it should
> do this but only as last resort - if partition can't be mounted).
How can reading information that is not used by any kernel
help in mounting a partition?
> Difference in CHS translation should matter only if you have some old DOS
> partitions created using CHS information. Then you can force geometry
> using boot parameter "hd?=". Unfortunately I've seen recently bugreport
> when 2.4.20 (?) works and 2.6.x fails even with forced geometry.
Fails? What do you mean?
(Are you referring to the problem of finding the last cylinder?)
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-11 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-11-05 19:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-11-11 11:53 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2003-11-11 18:29 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-11-05 17:23 Flavio Bruno Leitner
2003-11-05 17:29 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-11-05 17:57 ` Flavio Bruno Leitner
2003-11-11 11:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-11 12:13 ` Flavio Bruno Leitner
2003-11-11 16:21 ` bill davidsen
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