[Nottingham] /boot below 8GB (was: Linux not recognized/bootable after installation)

[Paul Sladen]

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Martin Waryniak wrote:

> Do you know, is the limit now 8GB or still 2GB?

It should be either `No Limit', or 8GB (lba32);  here's what Jeremy Katz of
Redhat says about why they give the warning (if you follow the thread there 
are seperate answers about it being 8GB):

  https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/enigma-list/2002-March/010463.html

  ] On many current machines which properly implement LBA32, there isn't a
  ] problem.  Unfortunately, there's a relatively significant, non-zero
  ] percentage of motherboards (even relatively new ones) which report that
  ] they support LBA32 when they really don't.  So, we go ahead and warn you
  ] that it may not work because there's no way to tell unless you go ahead
  ] and try it :(

I can believe that with all the strange things that the manufacturers tend to
do to laptops that it's one of the boards ``which report that they support
LBA32 when they really don't''.

Hope that helps and best of luck,

	-Paul
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Nottingham, GB