Re: Buggy old PROMs

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:57:32AM +0100, Pierre Roussel wrote:
> Si, si, le 22 mar, Jakub Jelinek a vraiment ecrit:
> 
> >
> > Where is the partition with /etc/silo.conf and kernel located on the
> disk?
> > If it crosses the magic boundary 1GB from start of the disk or is
> above it,
> > then you really cannot do that with old PROMs.
> > Installer should make sure the /boot partition or / if no /boot
> partition is
> > present is located completely below 1GB.
> > Only PROM in Ultra boxes is able to read from anywhere on the disk...
> 
> My / partition which contains /etc and /boot has a size of 2GB.
> If I create a little /boot partition at the beginning of the disk, will
> it work ?

Yes, it will work.

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