Hi list, I believe this is a BIOS limit but I hope I'm wrong. Here is my setup: two small harddisks (2 and 3G) on /dev/hdb and /dev/hdc (I want to remove them if I get this working) two larger harddisks on /dev/hde and /dev/hdg (40G each) BIOS only supports Harddisks up to 32G, so I can't use these disks on the motherboard controller. I got a PCI IDE Controller (EXSYS PCI EIDE 4HDD RAID 0/1 DMA 100 EX-3305) to work around this problem (much faster, also). I don't use the RAID options of the controller. I setup a software RAID 1 using partitions from hde and hdg. Here is my mount setup: /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/md1 on /home type ext3 (rw) /dev/md2 on /usr type ext3 (rw) /dev/md5 on /var type ext3 (rw) /dev/md6 on /tmp type ext3 (rw) /dev/md3 on /var/spool type ext3 (rw) /dev/md7 on /usr/local/www type ext3 (rw) The controller and the raid on the disks work fine, but I can't seem to find a way to boot from these disks. This is on a woody box using lilo. The BIOS only lets me set the harddisks C, D, E, F (Windows naming convention) as boot devices. I don't want to have to use a boot floppy. Any idea how I could manage to make this possible? Thanks for any pointers! Greetings, -- Vinai Registered Linux User #280755, Debian GNU/Linux http://counter.li.org/ Secure eMail with gnupg http://www.gnupg.org/
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