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Subject: Re: Disk error and No /boot/loader
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Hi Daniel, 

Thanks for the quick reply..

> Booting above 8 Gb is not supported, due to BIOS problems. If you don't
> believe that, trying booting Windows above 8 Gb... :-)

Understood - But why would it have worked with 3.4 and the *exact* same
configuration?  (When I upgraded, I deleted the partition during install,
and recreated it the same way).

> problem recently. There is _unsupported_ options to make this work, but
> we can't activate them by default because not all hardware/firmware is
> compatible with it.

I'd be happy to test them further.. :)

Roddie



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