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<h1>Re: Another new mini-HOWTO</h1>
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<li><em>To</em>: LDP <<A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Another new mini-HOWTO</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Gary Preckshot <<A HREF="mailto:garrell@inreach.com">garrell@inreach.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Mon, 01 May 2000 11:05:45 -0700</li>
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<li><em>Cc</em>: <A HREF="mailto:aeb@cwi.nl">aeb@cwi.nl</A></li>
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<pre>It would be nice to combine this with the Large-Disk-HOWTO (a mini
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HOWTO). It would still be called the same name but would be a
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major
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rewrite. Email to Andries Brouwer: aeb@cwi.nl (author of
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Large-Disk-HOWTO).
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David Lawyer</pre>
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<p><br>I think this is a pretty good idea, since it would keep everything
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in one place. I'm CC'ing a copy of this e-mail to Mr. Brouwer with the
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original message appended. I think we can do some good making some suggestions
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for the ball of bandaides that is the current IDE disk structure. In particular,
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we should suggest that future changes to the partition table and the boot
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make use of the wasted track at the head of each partition. There's no
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reason to continue with a partition table limited to four entries, and
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32-bit sector addresses, nor a 512 byte boot record, especially when megabytes
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are wasted on the boot track. We ought to ask for professional performance
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from the people responsible for the current PC disk quagmire, and there's
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no reason we shouldn't have a coordinated upgrade to the bios, the OSs,
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and the disk structure that eliminates this running into limitations every
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time disks get bigger. It's not likely to stop any time soon. We should
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at least have 64-bit sector addresses. The LDP could lead the way, and
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Linux could easily be the first OS that took advantage of this.
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<p>Mr. Brouwer, here's the original message:
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<pre>I'd like to write a mini-HOWTO on huge disks,
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greater than 8 Gb, having recently had the experience of
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installing a 27 Gb disk, and then finding that Linux
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wouldn't boot. There's no easily accessible information in
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the LDP, and I had to use 30 years of experience and a lot
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of effort to get things going.
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It turns out that if you know about the latest LILO and what
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happens during booting, you can solve the problem. However,
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advice from current HOWTOs is either to use LOADLIN, write
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LILO to the MBR, or locate the linux partition below the
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1024 cylinder limit. None of these is satisfying for the new
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big disks, and with disks inclined to increase beyond 137
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Gb, some sort of forward looking HOWTO is indicated.
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Gary</pre>
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