Subject: Re: new laptop drive
To: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/26/2002 13:51:31
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:25:52PM +0200, Johan Danielsson wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
> 
> > Yes, because sysinst doesn't know if the BIOS supports it or not.
> 
> Couldn't this information be forwarded to the kernel by the boot
> loader? I suppose it does know.

I'm not sure it does know if you boot from floppy.
There are also buggy BIOS which claim to support it but fail to work
properly.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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