On 14-Sep-01 Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A quote from the end of the boot_i386.8 manual page..
>
> IMPORTANT NOTE: Because of limitations imposed by the conventional disk
> interface provided by the BIOS, all boot-related files and structures
> (including the kernel) that need to be accessed during the boot phase
> must reside on the disk at or below cylinder 1023 (as the BIOS under-
> stands the geometry). When a ``Disk error 0x1'' is reported by the sec-
> ond-stage bootstrap, it generally means that this requirement has not
> been adhered to.
>
> Just today I had a friend ask me if this is still true; I checked CVS
> history and found out that this comment was added by rnordier more than
> two years ago. Is this still true?
Not in boot1, boot2, and the loader. boot0 has to have the workaround manually
enabled, but sysinstall does that during installation.
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