Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry"

[Andries Brouwer]

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.

Andries

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