[syslinux] 2GB USBkey and mkdiskimage
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon May 8 14:28:30 PDT 2006
Josh Lehan wrote:
>
> The HP formatter does this, and it seems to work. It chooses the
> biggest possible full cylinder boundary, and sets CHS values to these,
> even though it is less than the LBA sector size. It then patches the
> standard Windows XP MBR to always use LBA INT 13 calls, and not use the
> old CHS calls at all.
>
If LBA is available, SYSLINUX will use it, and the geometry information doesn't matter one
iota.
-hpa
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