Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:17:00 GMT | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry" |
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Quote from Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:44:39PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:17:04PM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: > > > > > Is there anyway to get kernel 2.6 to use the geometry > > > the bios has for an IDE drive? > > > > The kernel does not use any geometry. > > > > > I have a installation setup that installs a non-linux os and I partition the > > > drive under linux. In 2.4 this has worked flawlessly, however, 2.6 reports > > > as # cylinders/16 heads/63 sectors. > > > > Aha. So your real question is: > > "Is there any way to get *fdisk to use my favorite geometry?" > > The answer is: all common fdisk versions allow you to set the geometry. > > I believe parted does not. Nor any of the libparted frontends. I may be > wrong though.
If so, I consider it a missing feature in parted - why should the BIOS geometry resemble the disk it describes at all? Some machines have no user-definable drive types, forcing you to use an incorrect geometry if you install a disk which is not in the table of supported drives.
This is no problem for recent Linux kernels, and doesn't even prevent you booting from that disk.
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