On 14-Sep-01 Mike Smith wrote:
>> A quote from the end of the boot_i386.8 manual page..
>>
>> IMPORTANT NOTE: Because of limitations imposed by the conventional disk
>> interface provided by the BIOS, all boot-related files and structures
>> (including the kernel) that need to be accessed during the boot phase
>> must reside on the disk at or below cylinder 1023 (as the BIOS under-
>> stands the geometry). When a ``Disk error 0x1'' is reported by the sec-
>> ond-stage bootstrap, it generally means that this requirement has not
>> been adhered to.
>>
>> Just today I had a friend ask me if this is still true; I checked CVS
>> history and found out that this comment was added by rnordier more than
>> two years ago. Is this still true?
>
> No; it's quite possible now to boot from beyond the 1024 cylinder mark,
> however boot0 does not install in 'packet' mode by default, which means
> that you need to manually install/configure it before rebooting after
> system installation.
>
> So we don't cleanly install for > 1024 cylinders, but it works with a
> little tweaking.
Actually, sysinstall has a hack to turn on EDD (aka packet mode) support if the
drive has > 1024 cylinders.
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