From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: anthony_renaud65@yahoo.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: The first 8GB harddrive limit for booting first iMacs. Help appreciated.
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:38:06 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228721886.7101.28.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96913.5566.qm@web35204.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:18 -0800, Anthony Renaud wrote:
> The problem is : Can Linux surpass this 8GB limit and be installed on
> partitions out of this
>
> 8GB limit,and be bootable and run without problems? It seems a hardisk
> controller limitation
>
> of these first iMac models.
>
As long as the bootloader and kernels/initrds's is above that limit it's
fine. Make sure to stick the newworld boot partition down there and
create a smallish (100M ?) partition for the actual images (/boot)
instead of leaving them in your main filesystem.
Cheers,
Ben.
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2008-12-07 20:18 The first 8GB harddrive limit for booting first iMacs. Help appreciated Anthony Renaud
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