Subj : Re: i've got the power To : Maurice Kinal From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue May 14 2019 18:00:46 -=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 08-May-2019 03:50 <=- NB>> Richard got around that by partitioning the drive into segments NB>> that DOS could handle.... of course, this pentium's drive is NB>> less than 1G... ;) MK> Yes but that only takes care of the DOS limitation and not the bios's. MK> In the case of the 486 the bios couldn't handle drive sizes bigger MK> than 520M so I had to lie about the geometry to the bios in order for MK> it to get past the bios to the boot loader in order to boot whatever. Not sure but what that might also be the case here... I just checked, and the largest "drive" is under 520M, about 490M to be a little more precise... that's the one designated c:\ MK> However the only one that could boot successfully was lilo installed MK> on the root partition (not the mbr) so that the kernel could correct MK> the obviously 'haked' geometry and therefore utilize the entire drive MK> no matter how it was then partitioned. Okay... you're speaking Wizard here.... and mine isn't around at the moment to translate... I do have a rough Idea what you are saying, though.... ;) MK> Also no bios upgrades back then. The only upgrade possible at that MK> time was to solder on a whole new chip which is something I wasn't MK> about to do. Anyhow I retired that computer not too long afterwards MK> since it lacked any 32 bit pci slots which was the only sensible way MK> to upgrade a pc with whatever looked to be attractive at the time, MK> mostly network cards at that time. I'd guess that my requirements for a computer are a lot simpler than yours are.... ;) ttyl neb .... Everything put together falls apart sooner or later. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (1:229/452) .