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| author | Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> | 2020-04-02 11:20:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> | 2020-04-02 11:20:38 +0200 |
| commit | 5bca9033558801d7ee7894758fbf63a376510064 (patch) | |
| tree | 777051826e1df2b9cf73e511a1fa9693d86c7ae0 /en/partitioning/partition | |
| parent | 63a134f7fe6c3188971e51c5bf6f50a5982a9913 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-5bca9033558801d7ee7894758fbf63a376510064.zip | |
Update manual regarding the latest bootloader changings (removal of lilo + globally changing the term 'Installing GRUB on a harddisk' into 'Installing GRUB on the primary drive')
Diffstat (limited to 'en/partitioning/partition')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/partitioning/partition/x86.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/en/partitioning/partition/x86.xml b/en/partitioning/partition/x86.xml index 6dbc476da..cc6bb0c5e 100644 --- a/en/partitioning/partition/x86.xml +++ b/en/partitioning/partition/x86.xml @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ must be placed within the first 1024 cylinders of your hard drive This restriction doesn't apply if you have a BIOS newer than around 1995–98 (depending on the manufacturer) that supports the <quote>Enhanced -Disk Drive Support Specification</quote>. Both Lilo, the Linux loader, and -&debian;'s alternative <command>mbr</command> must use the BIOS to read the +Disk Drive Support Specification</quote>. +&debian;'s Lilo alternative <command>mbr</command> must use the BIOS to read the kernel from the disk into RAM. If the BIOS int 0x13 large disk access extensions are found to be present, they will be utilized. Otherwise, the legacy disk access interface is used as a fall-back, and it cannot |