Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:47:16PM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:
>
> > Question is - what is determining that initial value that becomes the "logical"
> > CHS, and does it matter?
>
> No, it does not matter at all.
> CHS are meaningless numbers not used anywhere anymore in Linux.
>
> If you want to influence what geometry *fdisk will use, give it
> the appropriate options or commands. No need to go via the kernel.
> But only in rare cases is it necessary to worry about geometry.
Like LILO. It complains that the partition tables don't match the
geometry, or somesuch, despite an explicit "lba32".
Maybe I should start looking at grub, assuming it doesn't do the same.
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