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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.