Re: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries

H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-24T03:31:50Z

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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