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  From: Tarek Heiland <tarek@bakas.com.au>
  To  : 'David Newall'" <davidn@rebel.net.au>, linuxsa <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:52:13 +0930

RE: More space required

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!

> -----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.
> 
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