2006/2/16, Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex@milivojevic.org>:

Quoting rado <rado@rivers-bend.com>:
> What size do y'all recomend for the boot partition, 100mb?

If /boot partition starts on the first cylinder, and if your drive
reports 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, this will give you BIOS
addressable range of aprox 8Gb (a little bit less):

255 heads * 63 cylinders * 512 bytes * 1024 cylinders

Anything above it, and your BIOS can't access it.

Is this a problem related to the age of BIOS in question, or is it a plainly never-to-be-solved problem?