Rajko M. wrote:
> I'm sure that even with the BIOS limitation to 1024 cylinders, which is long 
> time obsolete, it was possible to use much larger drives than recognized by 
> the BIOS. The only limitation was that kernel and initrd must be within first 
> 1024 cylinders. That was usually assured by setting small boot partition in 
> the begining of the drive, up to the 1023 cylinder (numbering is starting 
> with 0 ). That is actually where separate boot partition has its purpose. 
>  
>   
Isn't a separate /boot also required when using LVM or software RAID?


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