[SLE] 1024 barier: Does SuSE 7.0 do away with this?
Will SuSE 7.0 permit instalation beyond the 1024 hard drive barier? Lawrence Sayre --------------------------------------------- "Man's mind is his basic tool of survival!" (a quote from the famous 'John Galt' speech in the equally famous book "Atlas Shrugged") --------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Lawrence Sayre wrote:
Will SuSE 7.0 permit instalation beyond the 1024 hard drive barier?
What 1024 barrier would that be? SuSE (and all Linux distros) have been able to use all of the hard drive for years. The 1024 cylinder limitation was introduced because of limited address space in the BIOS, and since Linux doesn't make use of the BIOS apart from at boot up, there is no limitation to what parts of the drive Linux can access. Having said that, of course, there's still the problem of booting the kernel. All the files that LILO needs to boot must be located below the 1024th cylinder, which is the only limitation. AFAIK this is still an ongoing problem. Hope that helps (and noone else has replied between me checking my mail and my reply being sent - that's the problem with dialup :-( ), Chris -- Unfortunately I'm back on V90 (yeah, right) dialup for the rest of my life, so I apologise in advance for any time delay in replies. Thanks. __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
FDISK (in SuSE 6.3) seems to have a problem with larger hard drives, while CFDISK doesn't. Is there an undated version of FDISK available? CFDISK is really nice but a lot of people use FDISK since that what DOS/WINDOWS always uses and are not aware of CFDISK. (I came across CFDISK by accident.) I don't think the printed manual even mentions CFDISK. Christopher Reimer On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Chris Reeves wrote:
Lawrence Sayre wrote:
Will SuSE 7.0 permit instalation beyond the 1024 hard drive barier?
What 1024 barrier would that be? SuSE (and all Linux distros) have been able to use all of the hard drive for years. The 1024 cylinder limitation was introduced because of limited address space in the BIOS, and since Linux doesn't make use of the BIOS apart from at boot up, there is no limitation to what parts of the drive Linux can access.
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