[SunRescue] Linux, SS20, partition sizes

[James Lockwood]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> Now, I'm not trying to be contrary, I just want to understand this fully...
> My company has sent out Sparc 5 systems with a 4 Gig drive with only
> one partition...  Was my company just lucky that the OS fell under the
> 2Gig limit?  Like it works unless your unlucky enough to have the boot
> code be moved above 2Gig?

You were lucky.  The next kernel patch could end up writing the kernel
above 2GB and break booting.

-James