o make cohabitation with other OS safer as possible, getting
geometry in the same way for all 4 IDE channel:
> * The only "perfect" way to handle this would be to modify the setup.[cS] code
> * to do BIOS calls Int13h/Fn08h and Int13h/Fn48h to get all of the drive info
> * for us during initialization. I have the necessary docs -- any takers? -ml
It's also possible to check it against a PTBL scan, this give us maximum
security and some level of warning.
o remove the CHS geometry showed on boot, it's well
documented in /proc/ide/hd*/geometry , or improve it adding some other
information like where it come from ( cmdline,cmos,identify... )
o Point for LILO and Large-Disk howto on ide.txt
o At this point I don't know for any benefit of a "nocmosgeom" param
but if will help, you know.
thanks, luca
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