Cylinder interpretation

[^chewie <chewie@guinness.urw.org>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Chris Kesler wrote:

> I see that you're booting from /dev/hda7.  You might have problem
> with that if part of your extended partition is past the 1024
> cylinder limit.

I have a question about this.  Does this cylinder limit translate from
CHS or from LBA, as a cylinder is recognized differently between the
two. Is it BIOS dependent?

Later!

    ^chewie

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