Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264916AbTK3OfU (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:35:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264917AbTK3OfT (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:35:19 -0500 Received: from fep21-0.kolumbus.fi ([193.229.0.48]:43234 "EHLO fep21-app.kolumbus.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264916AbTK3OfP (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:35:15 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:34:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: Szakacsits Szabolcs X-X-Sender: szaka@ua178d119.elisa.omakaista.fi To: Andries Brouwer cc: Andrew Clausen , Apurva Mehta , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bug-parted@gnu.org Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX In-Reply-To: <20031130132649.GC5738@win.tue.nl> Message-ID: References: <20031128045854.GA1353@home.woodlands> <20031128142452.GA4737@win.tue.nl> <20031129022221.GA516@gnu.org> <20031129123451.GA5372@win.tue.nl> <20031129222722.GA505@gnu.org> <20031130003428.GA5465@win.tue.nl> <20031130132649.GC5738@win.tue.nl> 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, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > > > Wrong: > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282191 > > "Wrong" - what a pessimism. Optimism ends up unbootable systems. > Windows XP has no such restriction. If you explicitly ask Windows XP > to use oldfashioned means, then of course that is your own choice. It's not like that. People get boxes whatever way they were imaged, etc. Most don't know anything about the internals. And when they want to make it dualboot with Linux, they might find they can't boot anymore. Do you also really believe this oldfashioned means is the only way to end up in problems because of partitioning tools change CHS units? > if there is a partition table already and we are able to guess a geometry > from that, use that; otherwise [...] OK, thanks, the problem is here. Maybe a warning could be added when the geometry can't be guessed (if the warning isn't there already)? 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/