[SunRescue] Linux, SS20, partition sizes

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

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...

--Kurt