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>Index: article.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/nbm/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/multi-os/article.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.7
>diff -u -r1.7 article.sgml
>--- article.sgml	1999/10/04 21:41:03	1.7
>+++ article.sgml	1999/10/09 09:08:44
>@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@
> install FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows 95 on them.</para>
> 
> <para>Here's how I might do it using these hard disks:
>+</para>
> <itemizedlist>
> 
> <listitem>
>@@ -142,7 +143,6 @@
> </listitem>
> 
> </itemizedlist>
>-</para>
>   
> <para>Both disks have 1416 cylinders.</para>
>   
>@@ -518,13 +518,13 @@
> restricts users of this interface (i.e. boot managers hooked into
> your disk's MBR as well as OS loaders hooked into the Boot Sectors)
> to the following limits:
>+</para>
> <itemizedlist>
> <listitem><para>1024 cylinders, max</para></listitem>
> <listitem><para>256 heads    , max</para></listitem>
> <listitem><para>64 sectors/track, max (actually 63, <literal>0</> isn't
> available)</para></listitem>
> </itemizedlist>
>-</para>
>   
> <para>Now big hard disks have lots of cylinders but not a lot of
> heads, so invariably with big hard disks the number of cylinders is
>@@ -533,11 +533,11 @@
> boot manager and the OS loader hooked into all bootable partitions'
> Boot Sectors) has to reside below cylinder 1024.  In fact, if your
> hard disk is typical and has 16 heads, this equates to:
>+</para>
> <informalexample>
> <para>1024 cyl/disk &times; 16 heads/disk &times; 63 sect/(cyl-head)
> &times; 512 bytes/sector</para>
> </informalexample>
>-</para>
>   
> <para>which is around the often-mentioned 528MB limit.</para>
>   
>@@ -558,16 +558,16 @@
>   
> <para>To use my 1.6 Gig Western Digital as an example again, it's
> physical geometry is:
>+</para>
> <informalexample>
> <para>(3148 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 512 bytes/sector)</para>
> </informalexample>
>-</para>
>   
> <para>However, my BIOS LBA remaps this to:
>+</para>
> <informalexample>
> <para>( 787 cyl, 64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 512 bytes/sector)</para>
> </informalexample>
>-</para>
>   
> <para>giving the same effective size disk, but with cylinder and head
> counts within the BIOS API's range (Incidentally, I have both Linux and
>@@ -621,6 +621,7 @@
>   
> <para>For reference, the following boot managers use the
> Master Boot Sector to store their code and data:
>+</para>
> <itemizedlist>
> 
> <listitem>
>@@ -636,10 +637,10 @@
> </listitem>
> 
> </itemizedlist>
>-</para>
>   
> <para>These boot managers use a few additional sectors after the
> Master Boot Sector:
>+</para>
> <itemizedlist>
> 
> <listitem>
>@@ -651,7 +652,6 @@
> </listitem>
> 
> </itemizedlist>
>-</para>
>   
> </sect3>
> 
>@@ -665,10 +665,10 @@
>   
> <para>If you have a bootable DOS partition on your disk, you can boot
> off a DOS floppy, and run:
>+</para>
> <informalexample>
> <screen>A:\> <userinput>FDISK /MBR</></screen>
> </informalexample>
>-</para>
>   
> <para>to put the original, simple DOS boot code back into the system.  You can
> then boot DOS (and DOS only) off the hard drive.  Alternatively, just

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