On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:18:38AM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: > BTW: I've found out how LSI logic BIOS geometry translation works > with (guessing) and without existing partition table. That might be > an option > for Seabios to implement. > @Kevin: What do you think?
SeaBIOS has an algorithm for guessing the virtual disk geometry (see src/block.c:get_translation). If you have an improvement to that algorithm, please send a patch. Note that the physical disk geometry is obtained from the drive itself (where possible). -Kevin