From: Mark Lundeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: stage1_lba trouble
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 00:43:14 -0700 (PDT)
> My manual says there is a 1024 cyl max. Not 65536, which you must be
> thinking of.
You misunderstood something. LBA does not use CHS information but
uses linear addresses. So GRUB does not depend on what number of
cylinders is reported. In LBA mode, CHS information is used just for
compatibility with some OSes, such as DOS.
> something that doesn't apply here. Is there any way I can check that
> normal stage1 can access all of my drive, so I don't have to bother with
> all this trouble?
Look at the output from the command "geometry". In CHS mode, the
limitation can be calculated easily by this:
(the number of cylinders) * (the number of heads) * (the number of
sectors) * 512 bytes
or
(the number of total sectors) * 512 bytes
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