[syslinux] After USB boot problems on Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 21 11:54:28 PST 2014
On 01/21/2014 11:13 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> My current theory is that vendors prefer to record
> a cylinder aligned end CHS address over recording
> an end CHS address which exploits the whole capacity.
> This is used as an (inofficial ?) protocol to publish
> the CHS factors H' and S'.
>
Indeed it is -- at least some BIOSes "deduce" the H/S to use from that.
-hpa
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