On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:12 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > "Harley D. Eades III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> So the question is, if /sys/firmware/edd doesn't exist, do we attempt to > >> `modprobe edd` from within libparted? Or is that something that > >> libparted should not be doing? > > I don't think libparted should be using modprobe to check/init a module. > > We could make edd a prereq for libparted or we could find another way > > which doesn't involve the use of a linux kernel module. > > I'm not sure of this could help but I prefer to send it anyway. > > In grub, Fedora folks did a patch to include geometry calc there. Do a > look in: > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub/trunk/debian/patches/geometry-26kernel.diff?op=file&rev=0&sc=0http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub/trunk/debian/patches/geometry-26kernel.diff?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 > It looks like they added all the necessary "things" to grub instead of relying on the kernel to get the geom. Or am I reading this wrong?
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