Re: Strange MBR CHS partition values created by debian-installer
On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 12:15:35AM +0300, ValdikSS wrote:
> On 09.07.2023 00:02, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > Nothing should be caring about C/H/S at all in the 21st century. Using
> > C/H/S only allows you to access 515MB of disk [1]. *Everything* these
> > days uses LBA instead.
> >
> > What makes you think that the BIOS on this old machine cares about
> > C/H/S?
>
> My machine is old, it's a 32-bit CPU from 2006 in a machine from 2008.
That's sad. My 486 from 1993 uses LBA correctly and doesn't care about
CHS at all. How could a machine from 15 years later when disks much
much bigger than CHS supported possibly care at all?
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Len Sorensen
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