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All About Disk Geometry And The 1024 Cylinder Limit For Disks.
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Large Disk mini-HOWTO
Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl
v1.0, 960626
1. The problem
Suppose you have a disk with more than 1024 cylinders. Suppose moreover that
you have an operating system that uses the BIOS. Then you have a problem,
because the usual INT13 BIOS interface to disk I/O uses a 10-bit field for the
cylinder on which the I/O is done ....
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1024 cylinders.
This problem is very easily solved: make sure that the kernel (and perhaps other
files used during bootup, such as LILO map files) are located on a partition
that is entirely contained in the first 1024 cylinders of a disk that the BIOS
can access - probably this means the first or second disk.
Another point is that the boo.... |
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