1024 cylinder bios limit fix

Is it possible for a boot loader to fix/patch the pc-bios to get rid of stupid 1024 cylinder bios limit once and for all !!!

Probing more disks

Hello! As Anton Anisimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] has told me, his Linux determines a UDMA/66 IDE drive as /dev/hde (at least on that machine). The BIOS considers the same drive as 0x80. Currently GRUB doesn't even probe more than 4 IDE devices. If it did, /dev/hde would become (0x80) which is