[SunRescue] Linux, SS20, partition sizes

[James Lockwood]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> I actually managed to get a RH 6.1 CD burned last night, and my SS20
> actually booted from it!  Last time I installed Solaris, I gave it the first
> 2000MB of my 4GB disk, in the interests of playing around with Linux to
> Solaris interoperability (filesystems/disk slices).  When I tried to create
> a /boot partition (where I keep the kernel and initial ram disk, and things
> like that), it said "/boot partition too big".  When I've seen this message
> on Intel RedHat installs, it's either meant that I'm trying to create a
> slice that's bigger than the free space on the disk (not the case here), or
> that I'm trying to create more slices than it can handle (which doesn't seem
> right this time).  Any ideas on why this message is bugging me?  Thanks,

This is a VFAQ.  The boot code must live in the first 2GB of the disk on
pre-Ultra systems.  Until the kernel is loaded the only way to get disk
blocks is through the boot PROM, and that can't address past 2GB on older
hardware.

-James