Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?
I have had no problems partitioning and installing Linux on 1.2 gig and
3.5 gig drives on old 386 machines. I boot the install floppy and proceed
from there. I usually just create a boot floppy. This loads the kernel
into memory and IDE access from there is handled w/o the obsolete BIOS.
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, 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?
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