On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:57:48PM -0500, Wit wrote: > > Another thought just occurred to me. Long ago and in a strange far away > land, there used to be some offset limits (1044 cyls?) that the initial > boot loaders could access. In my set up, I have a boot partition as the > first partition on the HD. About 100 cyliners or so. This lets the > initial stages load the stages that can access the full span of the HD, > IIRC, as well as the FS-aware pieces. > I think the limit was 1024 cyls, on _very_old_ versions of lilo. My box with grub has /boot as the 15th partition (the inside of the disk, so it's the slow part, only accessed when booting or storing a new kernel). So, I doubt it is the problem here.
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