http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c4
--- Comment #4 from Thies Thate 2010-07-12 12:09:08 UTC ---
Thanks for your explication.
Experimenting with new distroes in multiboot makes it less easy if you have to
take care of the 128GB boundary. I always use the /boot/grub of the last
installed distro. Mostly I change the highest (sda4) partition with the new
distro and I keep the sda1 partition always for Windows, the sda2 partion
always as linux swap, the sda3 partition mostly for a longer time, also for a
linux distro.
Question: what can I do if the windows partition is let's say 200GB. Then you
never have a linux boot partition below 128GB.
But as I said using grub-pc seems not have this problem, using a special
probing routine.
In the mean time I studied my bios (AM inc V02.61) the SATA0 HardDisk is
recognized as a HD with size 640GB with no resrictions. (as for older systems
as I know.) (I work with a new Dell Studio Desktop 540 MT)
(In reply to comment #3)
Ah, I see where the problem is: 'Below' in this case does not mean 'Smaller',
but where they are located on the disk. This means, that if you have 5
partitions on a 300GB disk, each 60GB, first two are below 128GB, others are
not.
Jozef, consider changing the wording to something like 'entirely within the
first 128GB of the disk'.
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