Re: How big is my H/D ?
On 18 Nov 1998, Carey Evans wrote:
: Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net> writes:
:
: > On the other hand, Linux doesn't need the BIOS information at all (I
: > have a few machines where the BIOS has no idea I've even got IDE drives,
: > but Linux knows). If you're only running Linux you're ok.
:
: Not quite. If you're using LILO to boot off the drive, /boot/vmlinuz
: has to be in a part of the disk that the BIOS sees. The easiest way
: to do this is to make a small /boot partition at the start of the drive.
You are correct of course, and I omitted the fact that the machines in
question boot from SCSI (but would want to boot from IDE if they knew
the drives existed :)
Oh well.
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