[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

[Michael Brown]

The vast majority of bios/adapters do not support EDD at this time.
--
Michael

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 20:01, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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
> 
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