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> EFI from CD/DVD/BD has a soft size limit of 32 MB for its > System Partition. > That's due to the format of El Torito Boot Catalog which > counts the 512-bytes blocks by a 16-bit unsigned integer. @Thomas, If you would be so kind, would you please remind me (us)... Is this "32MiB" a limitation related to the UEFI specs in any way? Or is it relevant for BIOS

Hi, Ady wrote: > Is this "32MiB" a limitation related to the UEFI specs in any way? Or > is it relevant for BIOS (non-EFI) too? It comes from El Torito specs which are referred to by UEFI 2.4 specs. In EL Torito 1.0, Figures 3 and 5, "Sector Count" is a 2-byte "Word". So it can count up to 65535. Sector count gives the number of "virtual/emulated

> Hi, > > Ady wrote: > > Is this "32MiB" a limitation related to the UEFI specs in any way? Or > > is it relevant for BIOS (non-EFI) too? > > It comes from El Torito specs which are referred to by UEFI 2.4 > specs. In EL Torito 1.0, Figures 3 and 5, "Sector Count" is a 2-byte > "Word". So it can count up to 65535. > Sector count