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From: Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>
To: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>, Apurva Mehta <apurva@gmx.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	bug-parted@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:54:04 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031203115404.GE1810@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0312031224050.28298-100000@mlf.linux.rulez.org>

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:28:20PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > The real question is: "what is the default install option - LBA or CHS
> > - on modern(ish) Windows systems?"
> 
> Autodetect unless it's explicitely set.

Can you elaborate?  Autodetect what?  Autodetect if the BIOS supports LBA?

(BTW, "LBA mode" is purely setting CHS = x/255/63, right?
It's not like anything is getting enabled/disabled?)

> > What proportion of XP users boot via CHS?
> 
> Depends on BIOS, boot manager, configuration, etc.

Sure.  But can we estimate anyway?  Do a "random" survey?

* does more than 1% of the Windows market use a boot manager other
than Windows'/lilo/grub?  (Guess: No)

* what proportion of Windows users do any configuration themselves?
What about the OEM installers?  (Aren't these a high proportion?) 
(Guess: 90% OEM; 1% of users do boot config)

* do OEM installers generally use LBA?  (Guess: no idea)

Maybe the students/academics here should poke around their university
campuses.  I'm not sure how we could unobtrusively check!  Some BIOS
POST screens show useful info.

Cheers,
Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-03 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-28  4:58 Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX Apurva Mehta
2003-11-28 14:24 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29  2:22   ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-29  5:16     ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-29  9:18       ` Sven Luther
2003-11-29 12:41         ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 11:44           ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 15:19             ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 12:34       ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 13:50         ` John Bradford
2003-11-29 14:04           ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-11-29 17:01           ` Sven Luther
2003-11-29 22:14             ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 22:44               ` Sven Luther
2003-11-30  0:39                 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30  9:35               ` Sergey Vlasov
2003-11-29 22:31           ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30  8:57             ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-11-30  7:38               ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 10:40               ` John Bradford
2003-11-30 11:24                 ` Sven Luther
2003-11-30 13:48                   ` John Bradford
2003-11-30 17:22                     ` Sven Luther
2003-11-30 23:51                 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30 22:54               ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-29 22:27         ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30  0:34           ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 11:10             ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 13:26               ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 12:34                 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 15:46                   ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 22:33       ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30  9:16         ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 11:05           ` Andrew Clausen
2003-12-03 11:28             ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 11:54               ` Andrew Clausen [this message]
2003-12-03 13:07                 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 23:27                   ` Andrew Clausen
2003-12-03 21:55                     ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 23:47                     ` bill davidsen
     [not found] <200311300220.hAU2K0dr019280@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>
2003-11-30  2:22 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2003-11-30 13:13   ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 13:58     ` John Bradford
2003-11-30  7:08 Norman Diamond
2003-11-30  7:08 Norman Diamond
2003-11-30 12:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-03 11:06   ` Andrew Clausen
2003-12-03 14:42     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-03 23:11       ` Andrew Clausen

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