I am working on getting my FC2 build released, but I am worried about the problem with dual-booting Windows that I have seen. Is there any way to get the legacy partitioning info for the installer without any manual intervention? Are there any updates for the kernel/parted/anaconda that would remedy this problem? I've seen solutions that use the legacy EDD information to change the heads to 255/240, although I haven't been able to determine which disks to perform this on. I assume that int13_dev80 is only for device 0x80, thus the discussion about disks other than 0x80. Is Red Hat working on a fix/respin? Here is what I have so far in the %pre (untested): ------------- modprobe edd # It seems to be only the heads that are incorrect H=$(echo "`cat /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/legacy_max_head` + 1" | bc -l) S=$(cat /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/legacy_sectors_per_track) C=$(echo "scale=0;`cat /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/sectors` / $H / $S" | bc -l) # I'm not sure how to determine which drives are present (maybe # /tmp/hda vs. /tmp/sda?? echo "bios_cyl:$C bios_head:$H bios_sect:$S" > /proc/ide/hda/settings ------------- Does anyone see any problems with this--or any better solutions? I still haven't figured out how to catch the exception where the system disks are SCSI and the data disks are IDE (/ on SCSI). Thanks, Forrest
