Re: lilo warning
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On Tuesday 01 January 2002 09:06 pm, Jeff wrote:
> > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
> > head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
> > Added Linux
> > Added LinuxOLD
> > Added Windows *
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> I have found that running lilo does function in righting to mbr,
> even though the error message appears.
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AFAIK this is only an annoyance, LILO is just testing your BIOS for large
disk support. If those two functions return different numbers, then it has
to do a little extra work.
As you said, it still works. It is only a warning. (dpkg is probably just
smart enough to suppress the warning message.)
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