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Re: [opensuse] adding hard drives and such
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:20:46 -0400
- Message-id: <4614DB8E.1040903@xxxxxxxxxx>
Rajko M. wrote:
> I'm sure that even with the BIOS limitation to 1024 cylinders, which is long
> time obsolete, it was possible to use much larger drives than recognized by
> the BIOS. The only limitation was that kernel and initrd must be within first
> 1024 cylinders. That was usually assured by setting small boot partition in
> the begining of the drive, up to the 1023 cylinder (numbering is starting
> with 0 ). That is actually where separate boot partition has its purpose.
>
>
Isn't a separate /boot also required when using LVM or software RAID?
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> I'm sure that even with the BIOS limitation to 1024 cylinders, which is long
> time obsolete, it was possible to use much larger drives than recognized by
> the BIOS. The only limitation was that kernel and initrd must be within first
> 1024 cylinders. That was usually assured by setting small boot partition in
> the begining of the drive, up to the 1023 cylinder (numbering is starting
> with 0 ). That is actually where separate boot partition has its purpose.
>
>
Isn't a separate /boot also required when using LVM or software RAID?
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