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Subject: Re: [9fans] venti+fossil, the boot process, and 48-bit lba
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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:06:15 -0400
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> you could configure fdisk and prep into /boot, and have boot use them, but perhaps the
> easiest change for you might be to stop 9load from checking the values (temporarily)
> until something better is done.

yes, this.  change 9load so that if the max disk address is 2^28,
it doesn't sanity check the upper bounds in the partition table.

russ