Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264884AbTK3LRY (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 06:17:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264886AbTK3LRY (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 06:17:24 -0500 Received: from fep02-0.kolumbus.fi ([193.229.0.44]:58723 "EHLO fep02-app.kolumbus.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264884AbTK3LRX (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 06:17:23 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:16:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Szakacsits Szabolcs X-X-Sender: szaka@ua178d119.elisa.omakaista.fi To: Andrew Clausen cc: Andries Brouwer , Apurva Mehta , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bug-parted@gnu.org Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX In-Reply-To: <20031129223349.GC505@gnu.org> Message-ID: References: <20031128045854.GA1353@home.woodlands> <20031128142452.GA4737@win.tue.nl> <20031129022221.GA516@gnu.org> <20031129223349.GC505@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Andrew Clausen wrote: > > Good question. From 98 up, Windows supports both LBA and CHS. I'm not > sure about XP/2003. I don't think it changed. CHS support is needed for backward compatibility during boot. This is why it would be important not to screw it, if it's indeed matter in the partition table. Some reading how NT gets/uses drive geometry, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=98080 > The real question is: what is the default install? How many users have > each? Google Zeitgeist says for september at http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/sep03_pie.gif XP 38% 98 29% 2000 20% NT 3% 95 1% XP is growing 1-2% each month at the expense of Win9x (see http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist//{...,jun,jul,aug}03_pie.gif) The majority of NT based uses NTFS. NTFS has its own $Boot file fixed at sector 0, that is it's the boot sector. I don't know how much it's different from the one booting from FAT but I guess not much (except of understanding NTFS instead of FAT during boot, etc). Szaka - 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/