Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?
Chris Brown wrote:
>
> I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for
> different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that
> can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that
> you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly
> supports the particular disk but once that is done DOS is happy to
> ignore the BIOS. Is this the case with Linux? Is it necessary to
> pass the disk parameters to the kernel at boot time?
>
> *********************************************************************
> Chris Brown cbrown@seitz.com !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!!
On my machine at home I'm running a 486sx33 IBM PS/1 with an old BIOS.
For dos, I installed the western digital overlay that allows access, but
in Linux, it ran perfect w/o it. According to WD, however, if you ask
them, Linux is "broken" because it doesn't use the BIOS. Yeah, and Win95
is "fixed". That'll be the day. There's a largedisk howto (or maybe it's
a mini-howto). Check it out, I found it to be very helpful. Good luck.
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org .
Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: