On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:13:50AM -0700, Barry Gershenfeld wrote:
>  6/5/05  Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> >This information is generated by "fdisk" and is fictional.  It is
> >related to the fact that some PC hardware can't address more than 255
> >heads or 63 sectors.  Doesn't everybody use LogicalBlock Addressing
> >nowadays?
> 
> Everyone with any sense does.  But there is a "hook" that apparently will 
> never go away.  That is the fact that the BIOS and bootstrap still uses 
> C/H/S.  That is why we can never get free of it.
> 
> Barry
> 

Should I be selecting LAB in the BIOS and during the install as a
regular thing?

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