Re: Installation on partitions beyond 4GB limit

[Gunther Nikl <gni%gecko.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 06:43:28PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:45:49AM +0000, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> >   I think it depends on the device used to access the harddisk. If the
> >   device can cope with disk > 4GB in a way, the bootblocks could probably
> >   utilize the device support to boot from a partition above 4GB.
> 
> Not the current ones. They get a traditional trackdisk.device-compatible 
> IORequest from the OS, pointing to the start of the boot partition, 
> that is, 2^32 bytes maximum range.

  Oh yes, thanks for pointing this out. I missed the point that the
  kickstart must load the bootblocks somehow ;-) Thus without an updated
  loader there is no way to have a boot partition beyound the 4gb barrier.

  Gunther