[SPARCbook] Sparcbook ATA drive formatting

[Ian Spray]

On 23-Oct-00 Martin Wedel wrote:
>
> btw, what's the largest hdd anyone has been able to use in their
> sparcbook? I know tadpole sells a 12G, but is there any OBP limitation to
> go above that?
> 
I would tend to be careful about where the kernel image resides on the
drive - older versions of OBP weren't very happy if the kernel either
spanned, or was on the other side of the first 2G of drive space. 
Simply make sure the / partition is no more than 2G, and is the first slice
on the drive, and that won't be a problem.

I can't recall if there were any other gotcha's, though.

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