[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > >> Hi there >> >> Well I was feeling a bit adventurous tonight and have successfully >> upgraded my Gentoo box to 2.6.0-test9. Everything's very sweet, and >seems >> quicker but that could be my imagination. >> >> However, when I run Lilo I get an error I've never seen before. The >system >> boots fine so I'm not too concerned but I'd love to figure it out. >Here's >> there error. >> >> Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for >device >> 0x80 >> Kernel: 65535 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors >> BIOS: 1024 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors > >Hmm 65535 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors =66059280 > 1024 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors =16450560 > >Either the BIOS is set wrong for the HDD, or it can't handle the size of >disk that is installed. But don't worry, Linux takes over from the BIOS >when determining the disk geometry. Linux does not trust BIOSs. > >The error message is probably a feature of the 2.6 kernel. > lol! That's exactly what the LKML said! Like I said, not worried about it, and having read numerous posts on LKML it appears to be completely benign. >
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