[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

[H. Peter Anvin]

ganapathy murali krishnan wrote:
> 
> I always thought that drive 0x80 is either /dev/hda or /dev/sda. Since
> in most cases there is no SCSI drives, the mapping between 0x8{0,1,2,3}
> to /dev/hd{a,b,c,d} was trivial. Hmmm. You always keep learning stuff.
> 

You'd be surprised.  Sometimes Linux and the BIOS idea of ordering
between drives aren't the same.

I have seen plenty of machines for which GRUB wouldn't work at all, and
LILO had to be spoon-fed information about drive mappings.

	-hpa