[SunRescue] Linux, SS20, partition sizes

[Mike Nicewonger]

This might sound silly, but Doesn't Linux need to boot from below the 1024th
cylinder? Is the drive over that limit?

--Mike N
Fun Fun Fun, in a Sun Ultra 1!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu>
To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org' <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 6:35 PM
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Linux, SS20, partition sizes


>> -----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
>
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