Le Ven 25 mai 2007 16:24, Alan Cox a écrit : > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:44:09AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> Personally, I'd rather see us respect the hpa whenever we can. Just >> seems like the correct thing to do. Then again, it sounds like the >> only >> case where its really necessary, the bios hard-codes it anyhow... > > Its a real PITA to answer that. HPA is uses for > > 1. Hiding Windoze recovery partitions (depends on the user what is > "right") > 2. Clipping disks to work around old BIOSen (want to remove) > 3. Hiding suspend partitions (generally want to keep it on) > 4. Clipping odd sector count disks to even sizes (want to keep on) > > and more.. Can't HPA be used by default for new installations, and be disabled when the user asks to upgrade a pre-hpa fedora system ? -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
