Re: cloning hard disk - /boot
hi ya pigeon
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Pigeon wrote:
> > for those old systems, that doesn't know how to handle disks
> > over 512MB or 138GB ... /boot is required in the first partition
> > which is a violation of "swap being first partition"
...
> Surely in respect of the larger limit, the requirement is that "/boot
> should be within the first 138GB"? I wouldn't have thought a 2 gig
> swap partition would cause you to violate that :-)
/boot should be in the first 504MB or it'd be useless for the purposes
of having a separate /boot partition
more fun bios hell from the 1970's
http://linux-1u.net/Disks/#BIOS
c ya
alvin
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