From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries
Date: 23 Jun 2003 20:45:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd8hgj$cas$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030624013908.B1133@pclin040.win.tue.nl
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-24 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-23 23:09 Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries Luis Miguel Garcia
2003-06-23 23:39 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-06-24 0:31 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-24 8:14 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-06-24 3:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-06-24 4:22 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-06-24 4:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-24 11:13 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-06-24 15:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-24 15:42 ` John Coffman
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