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Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition
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The 1024 limit was imposed by old BIOS' not LILO/Grub/whatever. I think
LILO still produces a warning if your kernel is not within the 1024
barrier.
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On the 21st day of March in the year 2003 you wrote:
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:19:02 -0500
> From: Paul <paul@dpagin.net>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
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> Subject: Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition
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> gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
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> >As for why that's /boot, it's to ensure that if you can boot at all,
> >you can get to grub's configuration (recall that bootloaders must
> >be installed under the 1024th cylinder of your hard drive because of
> >the broken IA32 design).
> >
> I don't think the 1024 limit exists anymore.
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