Re: Re: How big is my H/D ?
Quoting wb2oyc (wb2oyc@bellatlantic.net):
> >If you need to use DOS you'll have to upgrade the BIOS, twiddle the BIOS
> >to work (try something like CHS=1023/64/63), or use a hack like Ontrack
> >Disk Manager.
> >
> Not so. Just make sure that your DOS partition and any Linux root is
> completely within the limits of the 504MB. The problem comes from the
> BIOS being old and not permitting access to cylinders beyond the 1024
> limit.
>
> Linux doesn't have any problem with that, UNLESS you use Lilo. Linux
> itself DOES NOT use the BIOS, but Lilo does, and that is why any root
> must be within the limits of the BIOS itself.
>
> Just use the rest of it for the other partitions, such as /usr and /home.
> Its kinda cool in a way because you can have everything other than the
> root itself beyond the limit, and DOS will never see it and therefore
> can't screw with it either.
Taking that philosophy to its extreme, and using loadlin to boot linux,
you can have a DOS partition of 504MB and all the linux partitions outside
the pale. (Loadlin uses a copy of the kernel within its filesystem.)
Cheers,
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