[TriLUG] partitioning: primary or logical

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 11:55, Jeremy P wrote:

> The only restriction is that the /boot partition, if you're booting off
> the hard drive, be within the first 1024 cylinders.  (This is the whole
> reason for creating a boot aprtition, instead of just having the kernel
> boot off /).  I'm not sure that modern BIOSes even have this restriction
> however.

Actually, I think even that restriction has been eliminated
in grub and perhaps later versions of lilo.

Tanner
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