[SunRescue] Linux, SS20, partition sizes

Kurt Mosiejczuk kurt at csh.rit.edu
Thu Jan 27 19:16:07 CST 2000


On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, James Lockwood wrote:

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

That's what I thought...  although I had thought certain revs could 
read above 2 gig.  Guess I was wrong :)  Granted, I'm not the one
who decided one big partition was a good thing.  The people who decided
that also decided that "Entire Distribution plus OEM support" was a
good option.  *sigh*

--Kurt







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