Re: big harddisk (80GB) in P133
From: David Chambers (chambers.bath_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 10/21/03
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:29:36 +0100
I used a large disk (30GB) on a (very) old 486. It took me a while to
realise that linux completely bypasses the BIOS after the initial boot
sector is loaded. For various reasons, my main boot partition was located
outside the visible area that the BIOS could see - so neither LILO nor GRUB
would boot the system (but floppy disk boots were possible). I had to locate
and use a separate boot loader that could directly access the larger disk.
I would recommend you try this with your existing hardware - I suspect
you'll find it works OK as long as you stick to standard partition config.
DC
"ekkard gerlach" <jack@aiai.de> wrote in message
news:3F9563B2.9010307@aiai.de...
> hi,
>
> are any problems known when connection a big harddisk to
> a very old mainboard when using etx3 or reiserfs?
>
> I don't want to flash a old P133-Mainboard, I have to
> put a new harddisk into a old PC. There are only about
> 5GB needed. I don't care about loosing 80% of a 80GB
> harddisk if the old mainboard BIOS recognise only 10GB.
> But are there some problems with a wrong recognition
> of a harddisk? - Of couse, I mustn't put the harddisk
> into another PC who recognises the entire 80GB.
>
> thx
> Ekkard
>
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