[SunRescue] Linux, SS20, partition sizes

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Mosiejczuk [mailto:kurt at csh.rit.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 3:25 PM
> To: Sun Rescue List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Linux, SS20, partition sizes
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Is that true even of later PROM revisions?  I thought it had 
> been fixed
> at a certain point...  Although I do recall that REALLY early PROMs 
> couldn't even boot if the code lived past the 1 GB boundary...

Apparently so...  I was under the same impression, but I've got 2.25 in my
machine, and it doesn't seem to work.  I'm not sure if this is a "safeguard"
that redhat put it, or something else, but I guess I'll have to re-install
Solaris again.  Thanks,
	Greg