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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Chris Ball wrote: >> (would it not get the size of the drive from the bios?) > >No, the kernel tends not to rely on the BIOS for geometry. Which is >usually very wise. Except for rare cases involving LILO. It needs to know what the BIOS thinks the geometry is. In the case of my laptop (Compaq LTE 5400 -- I know, buy something less that a decade old), I have to guess since linux doesn't keep anything the BIOS provides. --Ricky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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