On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:43:20PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > 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 OK, I'm getting puzzled here... AIUI the purpose of a separate /boot partition is to make it possible to load the kernel under the control of an old BIOS that only knows how to access part of the disk. A BIOS that can't do LBA will be limited to the first half gig. The higher limit would apply to a BIOS that can do LBA but only with an insufficient number of bits. It seems to me that you're saying that a BIOS which is limited by the number of bits it can handle for LBA, when presented with a larger disk than it can handle, acts as if it's limited by not being able to do LBA at all. I can't see why this would be the case. Or have I got hold of the wrong end of the stick? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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