On 13/06/06, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I am indebted to you. You have greatly enlightened me on this topic. I now have confidence in how I shall execute my manoeuvres. I only hope that GRUB is mended soon that such feats will be rendered obsolete. Perhaps, though, we shall have to wait for GRUB2. I would use it, but, I am too scared to have a disk that I can't boot in to. Though I could save it with Knoppix and friends, I'd rather not.
-- It's been a while since I've dealt with these, so memory is a bit rusty.
You may want to follow up with a Wikipedia or general web search, for
more detailed data. I tried 'BIOS disk size limit', and one of the
sites (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/bios.html) provided this bit:
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I am indebted to you. You have greatly enlightened me on this topic. I now have confidence in how I shall execute my manoeuvres. I only hope that GRUB is mended soon that such feats will be rendered obsolete. Perhaps, though, we shall have to wait for GRUB2. I would use it, but, I am too scared to have a disk that I can't boot in to. Though I could save it with Knoppix and friends, I'd rather not.
—A watched bread-crumb never boils.
—My hover-craft is full of eels.
—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
