Re: LILO and big HD's
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> don't have this problem, just for my own knowledge...
>
> doesn't this require a quasi-new bios? since lilo can only bootstrap using
> whatever services the bios allows.
According to /usr/share/doc/lilo, support for booting from
cylinders > 1024 started with version 21.3-1(March 2000). And per lba32:
This version was created to allow booting on disks larger than 8.4Gb using
the Enhanced BIOS call (int 0x13, AH=0x42) and the packet-call interface.
These calls are supported on post-1998 systems, and through software BIOS
extensions such as EZ-DRIVE(tm).
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