boot a partition at a large offset

[Xiaozhou Qiu <xq mars iol unh edu>]

Hi, everyone,
    I know that there is a booting partition offset limit for old BIOS of
i386. Is there such a limitation as that for Alpha?
    I just found I could not boot a partition whose offset is about 10GB
from hard disk. BSD label and the three partitions are found, then aboot
 complains the ext2 magic number is not correct. However, I can use floppy 
to boot without problem. 
    Any ideas?

sincerely yours
Xiaozhou Qiu

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