aboot size limitation in Woody
I have a PC164 running Woody and booting off an IDE disk connected to
the motherboard IDE controller. I had a 20GB partition for the root
filesystem. There seems to be a size limitation in aboot when reading
into large partitions. I tried both the default aboot from Woody and I
even installed the bootlx file from unstable onto the front of the disk
to see if it would solve the problem. It did not. In both cases, I
could get aboot to fail to read either the /etc/aboot.conf file or the
kernel images if they were too far into the 20GB partition. The
Changelog seems to imply that the size limitations of aboot have been
fixed to support larger partitions for DVD images. In the end, I gave
up and repartitioned my disk to have a small /boot at the front of the
disk.
The error I would see is:
read error, lbn ... 0x8000000000000000
Bob
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