I believe that is no longer the case. In any case, LILO does not use any BIOS routines to boot. It may query the BIOS for disk geometry info. On 3 Sep 2002 at 19:25, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 19.18, Jerry Feldman wrote:
The BIOS has nothing to do with a LILO boot.
LILO uses BIOS calls to read from the hard disk. According to the readme, lilo can handle sectors > 1024 "if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface".
//Anders
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