Subject: Re: new laptop drive
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/28/2002 21:52:35
>
> I think David meant: at install time, have the install kernel detect
> whether the BIOS supports int13 extensions. If it does, then install
> the LBA bootblocks; otherwise install the non-LBA bootblocks.
AFAIK we have one bootloader for both. and it detects it when loaded (as
on my machine on which my 20GB disk is set to CHS in BIOS and netbsd
kernel is on partition above 504MB)