Re: sysinst partitioner issue

[Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>]

Hi,

> I wonder if it would be helpful to have a pre-built test image with
> multiple partitions
> - 0..1GB
> - 1..2GB
> - 2..4GB
> - 4..8GB
> each containing boot blocks and a kernel (possibly a sysinst kernel to
> make it more useful).
> 
> Then people could test dd-ing them to their a disk and booting on
> different machines and confirm which partitions boot (to help updating
> the docs)

That might be useful.  However, if a later firmware (4.16.x) machine has
problems booting from partitions larger then 4GB, we might be better to
amend the manual page to read:

  The OBP on most sun4u machines can only boot from the first 4Gb
  of the disk.

and remove the reference to U1 and U2 specifically.

Regards,

Julian

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