Re: 60 gig drive

[Robert Waldner <Waldner@KPNQwest.at>]

>nate@firetrail.com wrote:
>> i'd be more concerned with the bios then linux, especially if you plan to
>> boot off the disk.

make a small /boot-partition at the beginning of the drive, so you can 
put your kernel there (it should fit entirely into the 1st 1024 
cylinders), and you should be off fine. Maybe you have to tell your 
kernel about the disk-geometry manually, like I have with my 20some-gig:

/etc/lilo.conf:
        append="hda=49585,16,63"

but that should do it.

Actually my bios thinks of a 500meg-drive ;-) but as long as the 
kernel stays in the 1st 1k cylinders, that´s no problem at all.

hth,
&rw
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