Paul, at 14:03 on May 03 1996, you wrote to Rod Speed ...

PE>> and I think I saw some warning in the OS/2 manuals
PE>> about drives >1 gig needing you to do something special,

RS>> Thats not right, it should be fine. You arent using
RS>> some dinosaur version of OS2 still or anything ?

PE> I'm sure I didn't imagine it, so I have been reading the 
PE> OS/2 2.1 installation manual.  It says that the boot 
PE> manager partition must be within the first 1024 cylinders 
PE> (normally 1 gig) of the disk drive.  That's probably what I 
PE> remembered.

This phenomenom is not limited to dinasaur versions of OS/2. Warp also expects this.


BTW I just installed the latest public release of Linux on a 4.5gig drive
partitioned as one partition at work.  Because the partition spans the 1024
cylinder thingy, it won't boot from the harddrive. I must have a
"startup diskette" in the drive to get it going.  It loads a
bootloader from the diskette (I think) and continues booting from the
harddrive.

David
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