[plug] Large file systems.

[John Summerfield]

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Tamara Thompson wrote:

> where is your root filesystem?  where are you booting from?
> 
> ..."BIOS limits the number of cylinders to 1024, and any partition using cylinders numbered above this won't be accessible from the BIOS.  As far as Linux is concerned, this affects only booting; once the system has booted you should be able to access the partition.  Your options are to either boot Linux from a boot floppy, or boot from a partition using cylinders numbered below 1024.  "   
> from Running Linux, Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman (O'Reilly)
> 
> Hope this isn't totally useless info.

Does not apply to EIDE LBA (I've booted from well above the 1024 cylinder
line) and probably doesn't apply to scsi.




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John Summerfield
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