Khimenko Victor wrote:
>
> In <01JJ6TE5BJS2000G0L@rcum.uni-mb.si> DAVID BALAZIC (david.balazic@uni-mb.si) wrote:
> > I thought LBA put an end to geometry nightmares !?
>
> Unfortunatelly not :-/ Reason is simple: you MUST have some c/h/s settings
> stored in partition table. And for correct boot you NEED them to be consistent
> with BIOS imagination about disk. So nightmares are just slightly moved, not
> ended :-/
>
> > AFAIK the recent kernel has full support for the IDE hardware, so
> > the BIOS should not matter at all. ( except for booting )
>
> And this "except" is root of all problems: you MUST have proper information
> stored in partition table.
>
> > I personally never had any such problems,
> > so this reports are a little bit confusing.
>
> You are lucky then :-) I had such problems even with SCSI disks where such
> problems should be non-existent "by definition". They are exists and REALLY
> annoying :-/
>
> > On a related topic , what other parts of the BIOS are being
> > used or depended on by the linux kernel ?
>
> PCI, APM ...
>
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