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The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 15:23 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > > Your problem is to have a /boot partition altogether. They haven't been
> > > needed in many years. If you decide to make a /boot anyway and make it
> > > only 15M, it's your own fault. ;)
> >
> > That's not completely true, they are needed with older hardware.
>
> I doubt that. My oldest hardware is 97/98 and it doesn't need it. Those
> boxes (of mine) have 64MB RAM max, SUSE doesn't even install on that any
> more since 10.0(?).
>
> Question: how many systems out there which have 128MB RAM need a
> separate /boot partition?
The problem is not RAM, but the bios. The bios services are used at first
by lilo/boot to read the initial files, and older/buggy bioses simply can
not access HD beyond a certain point.
My machine, circa 2001, has some problems with big disks.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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