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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:54:47 +0300
From:      "Nikolay Denev" <nike_d@cytexbg.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Giant freakin' kernels?!?
Message-ID:  <005701c32eda$20076690$0300000a@niked>
References:  <87llwbqbhv.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>

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>From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/relnotes-i386.html:
>
>   "Due to code size limitations, the i386 boot loader can only load
kernels
>    from root file systems that are 1.5TB or smaller in size."
>
>I originally parsed that as:
>
>   "Due to code size limitations, the i386 boat loader can only load
kernels
>   smaller than 1.5TB from root file systems."
>
>I was seriously impressed with the amount of big-iron testing on this
>release until I re-read the sentence.
>-- 
>Kirk Strauser
>In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

congrats, you have passed the reading comprehension test at your second
attempt!...

--
Cheers,
Niki



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