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| author | hpa <hpa> | 2001-12-15 07:13:09 +0000 |
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| committer | hpa <hpa> | 2001-12-15 07:13:09 +0000 |
| commit | b9f4a599f1bd31369f3f3f49e05d2102ceb295fd (patch) | |
| tree | 1dcb84b1ec91dc53bb31a6bd76b327bd8b8e9695 | |
| parent | 91d13691ed844772bc3e71da9295744f30e9b739 (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-1.65-pre13.tar.gz | |
Document geometry limits.syslinux-1.65-pre13
| -rw-r--r-- | memdisk/memdisk.doc | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/memdisk/memdisk.doc b/memdisk/memdisk.doc index 64d19df3..e7a79e71 100644 --- a/memdisk/memdisk.doc +++ b/memdisk/memdisk.doc @@ -46,12 +46,16 @@ image should be partitioned for proper operation. You can also specify the geometry manually with the following command line options (currently untested): - c=<number> Specify number of cylinders - h=<number> Specify number of heads - s=<number> Specify number of sectors + c=<number> Specify number of cylinders (max 1024[*]) + h=<number> Specify number of heads (max 256[*]) + s=<number> Specify number of sectors (max 63) floppy The image is a floppy image harddisk The image is a hard disk image + +[*] MS-DOS only allows max 255 heads, and only allows 255 cylinders + on floppy disks. + If you want to recompile it from sources, you will need to make sure that you have a fairly recent binutils installed. I have been using the binutils-2.11.90.0.8-9 RPM from RedHat. |