On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:48:04PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > Yeah. But right now the installer doesn't have any data available about > HPA at all, so it can't do the partitioning right if we're disabling HPA > (which we are). Right because it was disabled too early for the installer to check > Which means for FC6, we have to disable HPA by default, and > conditionally re-enable it if there's no partition table entry that > points above the top. You never need to re-enable it. The partition table and partition sizes define the size of hda1 and fs etc. > Tangentally, I might add that if Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or similar ever > invent a function like this, we better not screw it up as much as we > have this time, because changing the geometry of another machine's disk > is seriously not fun to recover from. Just my introspective thought for > the day. If you want real fun try mixing EFI firmware, GPT and HPA. So I really hope HPA goes away. Its like drive passwords, a fine example of why storage device designers should be allowed to invent things that are OS matters 8) > > HPA out after the ACPI stuff runs once it is in as on the thinkpad it also > > edits the HPA settings when those run > > OK... is there a patch floating around for the _GTF stuff already? URL? > Also, are (whoever's doing it) doing _GTM/_STM work as well? The stuff done so far went to l/k and is a work in progress. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
