Re: IDE disk information changed from 2.4 to 2.6

[Andries Brouwer]

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

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