Stepping into the mix with $0.02 ... A huge problem in the PC world is that many devices and Windows itself formats with 255/63 heads/sectors, which results in a non-even cylinder. Anaconda is only going to preserve the existing geometry, for compatibility. It's not Anaconda causing the issue, at least that has been my experience.
Going back to when kernel 2.6 / parted was first adopted not by just Anaconda, but many other installers, with official, "to-the-spec" Extended Interrupt 13h support, most everyone dual-booting ran into issues. And even when not, there were disconnects between the BIOS and disk geometry. Since then every installer has been rather conservative, preserving existing geometry. One way to address this is to use parted to slice the disk so even when 255/63 head/sector geometry is utilized for various compatibility, things are LBA even. I've seen Anaconda able to do this at times. But there's still a lot of legacy issues and conservative defaults involved. Which is why dropping to Alt-F2 and ensuring geometry is setup as you desire is the best way. Until EFI/GPT takes over in the PC world, I don't see this being always addressed automatically and programmatically. Just my view. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
