Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:42:47 -0700 | From | John Coffman <> | Subject | Re: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries |
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At 08:29 AM 06/24/2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >Werner Almesberger wrote: >>H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >>>Presumably "linear", not "lba32". I *presume* LILO has enough >>>wherewithal to use EBIOS if it's available and fall back to CBIOS >>>otherwise for at least one of these options. I at least thought "lba32" >>>would force EBIOS usage. >> >>Yes, that seems to be the case. (All the LBA32 code is from John >>Coffman. I've copied him in case he's interested in the thread.) >>But you're still betting on the BIOS to either implement EDD >>correctly, or at least to report that it doesn't support it. >>Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are >>some BIOSes out there that get this wrong. > >Well... it's somewhat unlikely given the sheer amount of things that would >probably break. The rule these days is that if it works with the >particular versin of M$ that's currently shipping then it's good, but I'm >pretty sure NTLOADER uses EDD.
Likewise GRUB.
Win 95 & 98 require EDD.
Win NT, 2000, and XP use it to boot (NTLDR).
--John
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