> Hmmm. Maybe they fixed it now they used bzImage, but I
> thought that the
> BIOS was responsible for getting the kernel into memory
> during the second
> stage load, and BIOSes can only see 528MB of a disk ? Anyone
> know for sure
i had a kernel above 4GB years ago and it booted fine on an Abit SM5. As
someone else suggested (Kenn humborg??) it's more down to the cylinder limit
of the particular translation used than anything else.
-paul jakma
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