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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Jake Hawkes <jake@infinitylimited.net>
  Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 20:28:37 +0900

Re: More space required

At 08:16 PM 6/27/00 -0600, Jake Hawkes wrote:
>Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> 
>> At 04:52 PM 6/28/00 +0930, Tarek Heiland wrote:
>> >Very true, and there are many cases were this is actually used.
>> >
>> >The latest LILO supposedly gets around this limitation for the /boot
>> >partition. Only problem was when I tried to test it, lilo would not
write to
>> >the mirrored drive on the promise controller. Bugger!
>> 
>> I can confirm that it does. Mandrake 7.1 installs Lilo-21.4.3, and it can
>> boot my Mandrake partition which is well beyond cylinder 1023.
>> 
>on a mirrored drive?

Ummm, no, I don't have any such hardware. However, if it implements EDD,
then there should be no problems, n'est pas?

>--
>Jake Hawkes B.Eng, (CSE)
>
>"I'm only smart enough to know how stupid I am", Joe Strummer.
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course
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