On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote:
----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote:
Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days?
Who cares what cylinder it's on, and
who cares which head is getting the data? It doesn't matter to us
users...
...Boot Loader writers (e.g. grub) need to care about it since LBA
> is not quite available right away - you have to focus on other things
> until you can load the rest of the boot loader.
Ah, this may be a big part of what's confusing me because I've done a
lot of playing around with grub.
At what point *does* LBA become available, and who makes it available?
Is this one of those stupid BIOS things?
