[rescue] G3 Score

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Thu Mar 9 02:04:55 CST 2006


> 8000MB is safer to say than 8192 simply because with the partition
> map taking up some space before the first partition, you have more
> like 8191 or 8190, but hey if you say 8000 no chance you'll go over
> 8192 with the first partition.

Ah, so it really is not "the boot partition must be under 8000MB" but
"the boot partition must be entirely within the first 8G of the
physical disk, which may look like less than the first 8G when you're
looking at the partition info"?  Thanks; that makes it understandable
again for me.

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