On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Wayne Stout wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I just bought a 13.6 gig Maxtor hard drivefor my home pc, and much to my
> chagrin, I discovered that my motherboard BIOS will only support 8.4 gig. I've
> done some digging looking for a BIOS patch, but can't find anything. My mobo is
> made by Top Gun, has the TXPro UDMA 33 IDE support.
>
> My main question is this. Can I install Linux while using this MaxDrive
Yes but it's not easy. fun. or worth the effort.
> software? Will I need to use loadlin instead of lilo? Or am I looking at
> replacing the board? (Something I *really* don't want to do) Would anyone
> happen to know about a site that might have a BIOS patch for this board? (It
> uses an AMI bios)
Leave the drive the bios does see in, but your /boot partition and lilo
on it. Put the rest on the big drive, linux doesn't care if the bios can
see it.
> Thanks again for all your help.
>
> Wayne
>
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