Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:54:04 +1100 | From | Andrew Clausen <> | Subject | Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:28:20PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > The real question is: "what is the default install option - LBA or CHS > > - on modern(ish) Windows systems?" > > Autodetect unless it's explicitely set.
Can you elaborate? Autodetect what? Autodetect if the BIOS supports LBA?
(BTW, "LBA mode" is purely setting CHS = x/255/63, right? It's not like anything is getting enabled/disabled?)
> > What proportion of XP users boot via CHS? > > Depends on BIOS, boot manager, configuration, etc.
Sure. But can we estimate anyway? Do a "random" survey?
* does more than 1% of the Windows market use a boot manager other than Windows'/lilo/grub? (Guess: No)
* what proportion of Windows users do any configuration themselves? What about the OEM installers? (Aren't these a high proportion?) (Guess: 90% OEM; 1% of users do boot config)
* do OEM installers generally use LBA? (Guess: no idea)
Maybe the students/academics here should poke around their university campuses. I'm not sure how we could unobtrusively check! Some BIOS POST screens show useful info.
Cheers, Andrew
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