RE: boot a partition at a large offset

["Jemiolo, John" <John Jemiolo compaq com>]

was this on Redhat 6.0?    If not see if  " aboot-0.5-10"  works. (used in
6.0) 

JJ
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> From: 	Xiaozhou Qiu[SMTP:xq@mars.iol.unh.edu]
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> Sent: 	Wednesday, September 01, 1999 10:26 AM
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> Subject: 	boot a partition at a large offset
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> 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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