Re: Odd LILO message
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:28:34PM -0600, shock wrote:
| when i run /sbin/lilo, i get the following message:
|
| Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
| head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
|
| anybody know what this means? should i be concerned about it?
I know that Int 13 is a name for the LBA (Linear Block Addressing)
method of accessing a disk. The old style was CHS (Cylinder Head
Sector) and was limited to 8 GB I think (due to integer sizes).
Perhaps function 0x48 is CHS? I'd keep a backup floppy handy just in
case.
-D
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