RE: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take
I did this with a 486 33 whose BIOS limit was 850Mb. I installed a 6.4GB.
DOS could do nothing with it. But linux worked fine. cfdisk detected the
whole drive and I never had a problem. Until, I formated a partition using
WIN 95 and used it to store data from Win95. Windows really hosed the drive,
writting beyond the bounds..I guess now thinking of it the partitions was
bigger than what the bios could read so I guess this could even work.
I upgraded to a 166 anyway.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Scharf [SMTP:scharkalvin@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 3:06 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take
>
>
> >
> > Q2
> > My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i
> have
> > the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to have, lets say, a
> 15 gb
> > hardrive?
>
> Yes but ........
> 1: You MUST have the bootable partition (say /boot) completely below
> cylinder 1024.
> 2: Fdisk and Cfdisk probably get the disk size from the bios and will
> therefore not see the whole disk. You must give the disk parameters
> to fdisk in the startup invocation.
> ==
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