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From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries
Date23 Jun 2003 20:45:23 -0700
Followup to:  <20030624013908.B1133@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
By author:    Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Linux does not use the BIOS, and does not use CHS either, so geometry is
> totally and completely irrelevant to Linux.
> 

Actually, unless you have it "linear" or "lba32", LILO *does* use
CHS.  Unfortunately.

	-hpa
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