Mmm, should be, as the release scripts that build the CD image package up the kernel source that was used to build the kernel image.

However, there may be an older image in the flash; the kernel in flash boots a new kernel off disk. If the flash kernel doesn't do LBA48 I guess it won't recognise the disk at all?

It is possible to update the flash kernel, but if the process goes wrong you'll need a serial debug lead to attach to J2 inside the central, which you can operate the bootloader from - the reflashers for the empeg-car will work with it.

Basically, it's just waiting for someone to do a new disk-loadable kernel with reflash support in it, plus a tested LBA48 kernel (you could try, say, a 160GB disk as a secondary to see if it really did work with the disk-loaded kernel). This could all be neatly packaged as a bootable ISO.

Really, though, with such big disks you'd be starting to want another 16MB of SDRAM, which there are pads for on the board. This isn't enabled in the SDRAM controller though, so you'd need to do that somewhere "safe" (like in the E000 boot section which runs direct from flash and is in a writable flash area).

Hugo