[SunRescue] Linux, SS20, partition sizes

[James Lockwood]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> Is that true even of later PROM revisions?  I thought it had been fixed
> at a certain point...  Although I do recall that REALLY early PROMs 
> couldn't even boot if the code lived past the 1 GB boundary...

Pre-Ultra systems can't address more than 2GB of the disk in the PROM,
it's a limitation in the 32-bit PROM block reading interface.

Really old boot PROMs (1.x) can't address past 1GB.

-James