Last call for testing the new EDD-first boot code.

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai asmodai at wxs.nl
Sun Sep 26 01:35:18 PDT 2004


-On [20040926 04:02], Matthew Dillon (dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>    Last call for testing.  This is going to go in probably ~monday or so.
>    It changes the boot code to always try EDD (linear sector number based IO)
>    first and only fall back to track/sector/cylinder mode if EDD fails.

It doesn't cause any problems for my system...

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