Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266751AbTGKU2s (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:28:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266774AbTGKU2s (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:28:48 -0400 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.7]:4364 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266751AbTGKU2p (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:28:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:43:26 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Alan Cox , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' Message-ID: <20030711204326.GC20970@win.tue.nl> References: <1057933578.20636.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 904 Lines: 24 On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > - IDE disk geometry translators like OnTrack, EZ Partition, Disk Manager > > > are no longer supported. The only way forward is to remove the translator > > > from the drive, and start over. > > > > Or to use device mapper to remap the disk. > > "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" boot options can be used. > Or can I remove them? No. Distributions will I suppose use the device mapper, and individuals will add a boot parameter. That is easiest. It is bad enough that people will have to figure this out, but there is no reason to make people's life more miserable. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/