[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

You are correct, Peter.

I'm just trying to see if I can get people to do this the "right" way.
(outlined in my previous msg) This would provide a general purpose,
guaranteed correct and guaranteed safe method to do this rather than a
special purpose hack that only works if you squint the right way.

The right way does not involve a whole lot of extra work. I can post the
code I have that uses disksig to find disks, if anybody is interested. All
that needs to be written is the export of int13 geometry info.
--
Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 12:38 PM
To: Brown, Michael E
Cc: patl at users.sourceforge.net; syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6


Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
> Even then, not good.
> 
> I am the principle architect for Dell Server Assitant 8.0. It is an 
> installer that Dell ships with every server we sell. The new version 
> is based on Linux and uses isolinux.
> 
> We must always ask permission from the user before we change a block 
> on the disk. Asking for this permission from the boot loader would not 
> be an acceptable user interface (our marketing people would freak 
> out).
> 

Then don't use it... we're not exactly suggesting a general-use facility
here...

	-hpa