Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Hanish wrote:
> If we have a software which directly talks to the HardDisk
> controller, then It should be able to curcumvent this problem. However the
> boot partition will most probably have to be in the 8.4GB limit as it is the
> BIOS that load the initial part of the OS.
I wouldn't be surprised if you can't have a boot disk larger than 8.4GB,
but you can have other disks that are larger. I tried this earlier this
year (on an old 486-50 motherboard) and wasn't able to get it to work.
Linux and the BIOS had different ideas about the hard drive's geometry and
they interfered with each other.
I wound up getting a different motherboard, which it really needed,
anyway.
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