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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Tarek Heiland <tarek@bakas.com.au>, "'David Newall'" <davidn@rebel.net.au>, linuxsa <tarek@bakas.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:21:48 +0900

RE: More space required

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.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Newall [mailto:davidn@rebel.net.au]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 28 June 2000 4:25 PM
>> To: linuxsa
>> Subject: 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.
>> 


Regards
-------
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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