Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:46:28PM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> how about the reference of my machine that boots linux off
> of cylinder 2465?  :)
> 
> bioses (htf do you pluralize that, anyway) post c. 1998 support
> an extension called linear block addressing which allow the bioses
> to access larger disks, rather than traditional c/h/s.    take a
> look at lilo.conf(5) for the lba32 setting.

Well, okay, fine, sort of.

LBA32 is a cheap, graceless hack (apropos of the IA32
architecture...). The BIOS isn't really all that much smarter, the
disk is, and its cooperating with the OS to fake the BIOS out on
just how sectors map to cylinders.

And that doesn't mean the problem's magically gone; there are still
plenty of systems with an old BIOS out there (and probably even
systems with a new BIOS too dumb to deal with LBA32).

I, as you can see, just avoid using BIOS in the plural. ;^>

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

Attachment: pgpr6t95noPD4.pgp
Description: PGP signature