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$Date$
-Nowadays, you can boot Linux without every relying on CHS
+Nowadays, you can boot Linux without ever relying on CHS
(Cylinder/Head/Size):
- CHS information on partition table is obsolete and not used anymore.
It was causing the 1024th cylinder limitation:
- - disallowing partitions above 8GiG. Problem overcome using 32bits linear
- addressing in partition table.
+ - disallowing partitions above 8GiG. Problem overcome using 28bits Linear
+ Block Addressing (LBA) in partition table.
- disallowing to boot on partition above 8GiG (due to int13 limitation used
in bootloaders). Problem overcome using int13 extensions (EDD)