Re: The Linux 64 GiB Limit - was: Re: oops! Should be fdisk broken?

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:00:12 -0500 (EST)

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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Guest section DW wrote:

> Yes, you can.
> It may confuse some installation scripts, and you cannot have LILO
> there, but there is no need for partitions. It is just a 80 GB floppy :-)

LILO can be installed into the first sector of ext2fs. Ext2 reserves it
exactly for bootloader. If BIOS can access all needed data <shrug>... Why
not?

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