[syslinux] After USB boot problems on Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G

[Dean Graff]

cmon, it is not that ugly. before parted, and kpartx it was even worse.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:54 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> 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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