On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:56:27PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote: > If the standard (non-extended) INT-13h interface is used, then addressing > is performed via CHS, and w.r.t. to the BIOS geometry (which need not be > the same as the ATA geometry reported by the disk itself, due to potential > address translation by the BIOS). I guess that H=255 is the from the BIOS > geometry of the disk (as returned by the INT-13h function 08h).
Very likely. > The geometry just says how to interpret CHS addresses, it does not imply > any partition alignment. You can have 1MiB-aligned partitions even with > a n/255/63 BIOS geometry. Certainly true. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel