[ale] 1024th cylinder

[maltzen at mm.com (Gary Maltzen)]

All you really need is for vmlinuz to be entirely below the 1024-cylinder
(or 2**24 sector on newer systems) watermark. This is why you typically
define a small (2-8MB) /boot partition onlow cylinders of the drive.

Once vmlinuz is loaded, instead of using the BIOS INT-13 disk handler, it
uses it's internal disk handler which can access cylinders beyond 1024.

> When you place a bootable partition beneath the 1024th cylinder
> of a hard drive, can you just place the /boot/vmlinuz kernel
> there but leave you / partition above the 1024th cylinder if it
> symlinks back to the /boot/vmlinuz image beneath the 1024th
> cylinder?  Will the system still boot?


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