From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Coffman <johninsd@san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:13:19 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030624081319.G1326@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EF7D33E.6060009@zytor.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:27:42PM -0700
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.
- Werner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-24 10:59 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
2003-06-24 4:22 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-06-24 4:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-24 11:13 ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2003-06-24 15:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-24 15:42 ` John Coffman
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