http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597723 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597723#c52 --- Comment #52 from Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> 2010-04-28 11:46:33 UTC --- Hello, (In reply to comment #50)
For the partitioning: why can't we fake a "geometry" that allows for e.g. 4k alignment AND looks sane to ancient BIOSes?
There just doesn't seem to be any which all the different BIOSes could agree on which is aggravated by the fact that in many cases the first partition goes over the CHS addressing limit so the BIOS doesn't even have enough parameters to match up CHS and LBA addresses. :-( Another worry that I have is about deviating from what windows is doing. Vendors are testing their BIOSes against how windows is doing stuff so deviation might (I almost wanna say 'will' here) lead to strange unexpected problems for relatively modern and future configurations which is usually more important to properly support than older machines. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.