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Richard Fish wrote: |
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> No. both grub and lilo work through the system BIOS. Neither can |
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> 'see' things not provided through the system BIOS. |
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Are you absolutely sure about lilo? |
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lilo used bios for disk sector read, but I think is not using |
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anymore (quite a long time). Thanks to that you can have |
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/boot (more exactly, kernel) wherever you want. |
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int13h is called with following registers: |
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AH: 02h (read sectors from drive) |
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CH + 2low bits from CL: cylinder number (0-1023) |
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rest 6bits from CL: sector number (1-63) |
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DH: head (1-255) |
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That's the famous "8-GB limit" (and there are some more, equally |
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"famous"), where you had to install kernel with old lilo to be |
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able to boot it. But at least a couple of years there is no such |
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a limit with lilo. I think I have read somewhere that lilo is |
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not using bios for disk-access anymore. I'll try to dig it out... |
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Jarry |
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