Re: AW: Q: attempt to access beyond end of device

[roman songdog eskimo com (Bill Roman)]

Greg Lindahl wrote:
> 
> > I would think the restriction is that milo must live within 
> > the first 1GB on the disk, not what partition it's in.
> > 
> > Does your partition qualify on that?
> 
> No -- My 66 happy machines boot off the 4th partition, which is at the
> end of a 4 gig disk. I belive Jay claimed to me once that AlphaBIOS
> shouldn't have any silly limits along those lines.
> 
Jay is right.  My Miata at work boots (NT, sigh) from a system partition
at the end of a 4 GB drive.  I then use it to develop AlphaBIOS.  If
anyone can prove that AlphaBIOS has any such "silly limits", let me
know and I'll remove them.

I suspect that the reported problems have to do with: 1) the known bug
in mkdosfs (assumption that sizeof (unsigned long) == 4); and 2) following
the installation instructions and copying the MILO floppy image to the raw
partition.  The latter has always made me uncomfortable....

Personally, I got lucky.  The partition I initialized with mkdosfs works
for me on my XL 300.

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Bill Roman  (roman@songdog.eskimo.com / roman@songdog.uucp)   running linux