2006/2/16, Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org>: > > Quoting rado <rado at 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? -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060217/232a9722/attachment-0005.html>