http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c4 --- Comment #4 from Thies Thate <m.j.thate@tele2.nl> 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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