On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> >Yep. But if you also want to boot off these disks, you better create
> >a root partition that's within the first 1.2gig, so that the PROM
> >routines can read the kernel off the disk. 
> 
>   Must the *entire* partition be within the first 1.2gb, or does it just need
> to start below that limit?

Realistically, the whole thing should fit in the first 1 or 2 gb. The
problem is if part of the file the PROM loads ends up above the limit, you
loose. Even if the first install had it fine, whenever you update the
PROM-loaded file, you might loose.

I've forgotten details on how pmax's boot loader works now, so it might
not be a probem..

Take care,

Bill