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  From: David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  To  : linuxsa <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:25:29 +0930 (CST)

Re: More space required

>> Is there a limitation as to how much disk linux will recognise?
> there is an 8gig / 1024 cylinder limit for ANY OS imposed by the bios
> of the PC.

This sweeping generalisation is not quite correct.  The BIOS imposes a
limit on the size of disk that it will address, which means that the
bootstrap loader must fit within that limit.  There's no reason why
the bootstrap loader must continue to use the BIOS, which means that
so long as that boot loader fits in 1024 cylinders the remainder of
the partition can be much larger.

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