[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

[H. Peter Anvin]

Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> 
> Now for the on-topic part of this message.  What I want to do is
> invoke INT13/AH=08H in real mode to obtain the BIOS's idea of the
> geometry of disk 0x80, then boot Linux and pass that information in as
> a kernel command-line parameter.
> 

This is odd, because the kernel already does this.  You may want to make 
sure you have enabled EDD support in your kernel.

If you have EDD support in your kernel enabled, and this happens, I 
think you should file a bug report against the kernel.  This is plain 
broken.

	-hpa