isnt it more specifically that the boot filesystem has to be in the first 
gig of the disk, not the size of the disk? though istr that different prom
rev's had different idiosyncracies regarding this size limit.. 

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Chris Wareham wrote:
> I was under the impression that the boot drive couldn't be bigger
> than 1Gb on VS3100 series. If I can get away with using a bigger
> drive that would be great, as I can use a suprlus 4Gb one from
> my Sun machine.