[Nottingham] /boot below 2GB (was: Linux not recognized/bootable after installation)

[Tom Allender]

Paul Sladen wrote:
>>I installed linux into the partition hda6, with hda5 as swap drive [...]
>>Should I create a separate /boot partition?
> 
> To do with the history and uselessness of the PC BIOS;  LILO (the Linux
> bootloader) can only load the kernel from the hard disk if it it can find it
> within the first 2GB of the disk (is now this 8GB?).

True enough, (although the 8GB may be a higher value now). Red Hat 7.3
installs grub as the default boot loader and I don't believe it suffers
(with modern hardware) from the same limits.

Tom.