Ubuntu Preseed Raid 1 with multiple partitions

[Liam Proven]

On 4 June 2013 13:44, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> IIRC, it was a LILO problem.
>
> Anyway, old habits die hard and I still do this...


Well, LILO had the problem, but it's because (AIUI)  LILO perforce had
to run in real mode and in real mode you access the hard disk through
the BIOS (INT 11h, I think) -- and the BIOS couldn't access above h16
s63 c1024, something like that - equivalent to 511MB.

Then LBA addressing came in, but at first, it didn't work right and
had a separate limit - I think something like the equivalent of h255
s255 c1024. That meant nothing above 8GB.

Then they fixed LBA and it all went away.

But this stuff was a /long/ time ago. Now, it just gets in the way and
gives no benefit.


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