Hello Alexey!

03 Nov 16, Alexey Vissarionov wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 AV> Yes - because those BIOSes were found only on i386 and some i486
 AV> machines.

Put a hardisk controller with an old BIOS into a 586 and the limitation is back
again. I had a Pentium based server with a rocketraid controller that can't
boot over 1024 cyls.

 AV> Modern (3.* and 4.*) kernels simply wouldn't boot on that hardware.

That may be valid for latest mainstream distributions.

You should really expand your horizon and check out

http://distrowatch.com/search.php

for i386 builds. (Adjust Architecture to i386)

There are 48 hits for Ubuntu based distros and 142 hits for any i386 operating
systems.

There are builds with 3.x kernels that are build for small sized hardware.

 AV> Normally, the machine running GNU/Linux should have at least three
 AV> separate filesystems (with different mount options): / (defaults),
 AV> /var (noexec,nodev) and /home (nosuid,nodev).

Normality within the linux world is what matches the users requirements.

be open

Kai

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