On Thu, 24 May 2001, Angela Nash wrote:
> The newer versions of LILO let you boot from a disk over 8GB with no
> problems. The latest versions of about all distributions ship it. It's
> been out for a while now.
LBA32 mode, yes - but it does need a post-98 BIOS. Julie's new machine
should be fine, but I wouldn't bet on slightly older machines - or new
machines with older SCSI cards - supporting it properly...
Even if you CAN boot from one giant partition, I wouldn't recommend it,
especially with ext2. If you look at VA Linux's site, they recommend
having a fairly small /boot, then several distinct partitions; most of the
sysadmin books I've seen recommend splitting up your disk this way too.
James.
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