sean finney on Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:47:47 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition 

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:23:59PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:19:02PM -0500, Paul wrote:
> > I don't think the 1024 limit exists anymore.
> 
> What reference leads you to believe that?

how about the reference of my machine that boots linux off
of cylinder 2465?  :)

bioses (htf do you pluralize that, anyway) post c. 1998 support
an extension called linear block addressing which allow the bioses
to access larger disks, rather than traditional c/h/s.    take a
look at lilo.conf(5) for the lba32 setting.


	sean

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