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Re: lilo msg



On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:54:20PM -0800, Florentin Ionescu wrote:
> Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
> head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
>     fn 08: 784 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
>     fn 48: 13328 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 sectors

If it boots, don't worry about it, don't buy a machine with that
chipset again.

If it doesn't boot, go get a machine with a less broken BIOS, your
system BIOS appears to not be reporting the same drive geometry twice.
This is a Bad Thing.

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