Lawrence Stewart wrote: > When I last played around with having 1 large partition in the 6.1 days, > it didn't actually work consistently. From memory the issue is that if > the boot filesystem (which was on the large root partition) extended > past a particular combination of cyl/head/sector, the machine would > crash in the boot stage. With a 20GB disk it was fine, but a 40GB disk > would trigger the crash. > > This may have been fixed since then, but it would be worth doing some > testing on a range of hardware before we could recommend it as an option. A counter point: we have several hundred servers of various makes[*], sizes and ages -- most OS versions since 4.11 right up to 7.1-p3, typically with 40+ GB HDDs for the system disk (depending on age -- the most recent machines have 160GB) -- all laid out in the all-in-one fashion and we've never seen the problem described. I can only suppose Lawrence ran into a specific motherboard or BIOS limitation. Cheers, Matthew [*] Supermicro, HP, IBM -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW
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