[please don't cc: me on list mail. thanks] [...] > i claim w/ older (p3/p4 class) bios's ...you will NOT be able to boot if > your /boot/vmlinuz is NOT in a partition space under 8GB or 1024cyl... > - thus everybody seems to go around creating a small /boot > as their first partitions Yes, the 1024 or the 8G limit did exist for some time. I'm not really sure when which limitation was lifted (iirc the 1024cyl limit was a problem with LILO, long after the BIOS supported LBA. Dunno about the 8G limit - is it that one requiring 48bit LBA?) In any case, all recent computers should not have this problem, so I've never made /boot in recent years. cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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