Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries | Date | 23 Jun 2003 20:45:23 -0700 |
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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.
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