raid boot partition size?

[eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com (Eduardo Grosclaude)]

2006/2/16, Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Quoting rado <rado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > What size do y'all recomend for the boot partition, 100mb?
>
> If /boot partition starts on the first cylinder, and if your drive
> reports 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, this will give you BIOS
> addressable range of aprox 8Gb (a little bit less):
>
> 255 heads * 63 cylinders * 512 bytes * 1024 cylinders
>
> Anything above it, and your BIOS can't access it.
>

Is this a problem related to the age of BIOS in question, or is it a plainly
never-to-be-solved problem?

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Eduardo Grosclaude
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Neuquen, Argentina
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