Re: [suse-axp] aboot at SUSE 7.0

From: Stefan Fent (sf@suse.de)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 03:52:38 PST

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:52:38 +0100 (CET)
    From: Stefan Fent <sf@suse.de>
    Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012041251470.29065-100000@d150.suse.de>
    Subject: Re: [suse-axp] aboot at SUSE 7.0
    

    On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Mattias Hermansson wrote:

    > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:48:11 +0100 (CET)
    > From: Mattias Hermansson <mattias@hemmet.chalmers.se>
    > To: Martin Kahlert <martin.kahlert@infineon.com>
    > Cc: suse-axp@suse.com
    > Subject: Re: [suse-axp] aboot at SUSE 7.0
    >
    >
    > > > I just wanted to ask if the root partition still has to be smaller than 2GB
    > > > if I want to boot with aboot at SUSE 7.0 ?
    > >
    > > I think i can confirm this - see my other mail.
    >
    > Observe the diffrence between root and boot! I use a 5 MB boot partition
    > using FAT for MILO, and placing the kernel on it. This should be the best
    > solution, especially since MILO requires a filesystem to reside on.
    >
    > I'm not sure wheter aboot requires a boot partition, but from a safety
    > POV a read only boot partition should ALWAYS be used.

    No, aboot should be capable to boot also from partitions >8GB
    >
    >
    > M
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