Originally Posted by
GeronimoS
Unfortunately, the information here doesn't seem to support your point (pls see the end):
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E.1.9.1. BIOS-Related Limitations Impacting GRUB and LILO
GRUB and LILO are subject to some limitations imposed by the BIOS in most x86-based computers. Specifically, most BIOSes cannot access more than two hard drives, and they cannot access any data stored beyond cylinder 1023 of any drive. Note that some recent BIOSes do not have these limitations, but this is by no means universal.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...ARTITIONS-LILO
Nevermind then. Now I don't whether to believe that ancient Red Hat 9 Installation Guide or my lying eyes...
That very same extended partition now holds Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. The lowest cylinder number used by any ext3 partition in that partition layout is 6,345.
Code:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 608 4883728+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 609 1245 5116702+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3 1246 6344 40957717+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb4 6345 9964 29077650 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 6345 8078 13928292 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 8079 8231 1228941 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb7 8232 9964 13920291 83 Linux
You do what you think is right. After all, maybe your computer is also ancient and its BIOS doesn't support LBA. You didn't say. But if it is that old (c. 1994), good luck getting Fedora 10 to run on it.