On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> So everybody has says, but what can I say? I had Linux installed on
> the last 500mb of a 1.6gb drive; booted lilo no problem.
> My current root partition is 700mb; another box I have has a 600mb root.
>
> Are you telling me that EVERYBODY with IDE disks makes their root < 504mb
> and at the start of the disk, or has a small /boot? I've never done it,
> and I've had no problem. I've been running Linux for over 3 years.
>
> There seems to be a lot of urban legend involved in this story.
>
It depends on BIOS. If disk may be formatted as LBA - there is no
problem, as you mentioned. There is a problem however with old BIOSes,
which are unable to use HD using LBA - this is the case of my computer.
Wojtek
