Subj : BIOS question
To   : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Thu Jun 30 2005 09:05 pm

WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 WC> Roy as you've a lot of experience with Linux on older hardware
 WC> perhaps you can give me an authoratative response to the
 WC> following question?

 WC> Is an older, under 32 Gig limit, BIOS a limiting factor 
 WC> in setting up a Linux installation on a larger than 32 Gig hard
 WC> drive? 

Short answer:  No.   :-)

Worst you might have to deal with is to configure the drive as something other 
than what it actually is,  even if it's significantly smaller in your CMOS 
setup.  Then you set up a smallish "/boot" partition to start with,  and the 
rest of it for a "/" partition,  and let your install roll from there.  The 
reason for "/boot" is to put that on the drive near the start,  as the MB BIOS 
code is only used during the initial system startup and if there's any kind of 
a problem with >1024 cylinders or whatever it'll still be able to find and read 
all of the files.  Once the kernel gets going,  it'll figure out what the real 
story on the drive is from there,  and the MB stuff no longer comes into play.

At least that's my understanding of it,  not having any of those newer larger 
drives here myself -- biggest I've got is 10G so far.  :-)


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