BOIS Blues again

[Tim]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:27 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> The MBR is the first usable block of the drive.  Once the first-level
> grub loader is in the memory, it can boot any second-level loader from
> anywhere on the disk (or any disk).  Grub doesn't have the 1024
> cylinder or number-of-drives limit that BIOS does.

Others have suggested that it still does, that it must use the BIOS to
further access the drive.  That's why we have GRUB *and* the kernel
files in the small /boot partition.  It's the Linux kernel that can use
the rest of the drive.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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