From 5bca9033558801d7ee7894758fbf63a376510064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holger Wansing Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 11:20:38 +0200 Subject: 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') --- en/partitioning/partition/x86.xml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'en/partitioning/partition') 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 Enhanced -Disk Drive Support Specification. Both Lilo, the Linux loader, and -&debian;'s alternative mbr must use the BIOS to read the +Disk Drive Support Specification. +&debian;'s Lilo alternative mbr 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 -- cgit v1.2.3