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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/Partition-ends-after-end-of-disk.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/Partition-ends-after-end-of-disk.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/Partition-ends-after-end-of-disk.txt b/docs/Partition-ends-after-end-of-disk.txt index b48a40a87..5e859b428 100644 --- a/docs/Partition-ends-after-end-of-disk.txt +++ b/docs/Partition-ends-after-end-of-disk.txt @@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ $Date$ -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+Nowadays, you can boot Linux without ever relying on CHS (Cylinder/Head/Size): - CHS information on partition table is obsolete and not used anymore.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) |