Linux and 80GB hdds; how large can hda1 be and still boot off hda2?

[Kevin Brown]

Booting with Grub or Lilo?  I thought the 1024 cylinder limit was in older
versions of Lilo/Older MB Bioses that couldn't see a drive that large?

> I just installed a 120GB drive today.  As long as your boot partition is
> within the forst 1024 cylinders, you're OK.
> 
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda8            103999800  31121960  67594868  32% /
> /dev/hda5                15493      3426     11267  24% /boot
> /dev/hda7             10325748    749704   9051524   8% /var

> ? Linux and 80GB hdds; how large can hda1 be and still boot off hda2?
> ?
> ? I want to order a new 80gig hdrive for my new Epox KT333 mobo.
> ? Usually I dual boot, so is there a problem if RH8 or Debian uses the last
> ? 20GB of the hdd?