Re: bios q

[Arcady Genkin <genkin@sympatico.ca>]

Koyote <koyote@paonline.com> writes:

> I'm rebuilding a 486/33 to be our internet server (when I get that
> far...)
> 
> The cmos setup isn't handling the hdd (1 gig), nor the cdrom- I've
> heard that  Linux bypasses the system setup, or it can use devices in
> spite of it. How much of this is true?

I have a 486 with a 2.1Gig HD. Dos refused to install on it, saying
that the BIOS can't handle it. Linux installed and works w/o a
problem. The drive is LBA.

HTH

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