Detected hard disk geometry changed after installing FC2T2

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Fri Apr 2 23:56:40 UTC 2004


On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:52:47PM +0200, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
>  I still would like to access the BIOS geometry, esp. for empty
>  partition tables. But kernel 2.6 doesn't give us this
>  (/sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/default_heads is plain wrong on a box
>  here)

BIOS geometry data is also the wrong answer. The data you use is the
existing declared partition data on the disk. 

If there is an MSDOS partition table, believe the geometry provided by it.
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