> It is extremely dangerous to try and use hard disks bigger than your > PC BIOS supports - partitions will wrap around and overwrite > themselves with no warning. Even though linux can see beyond? My motherboard bios can only see upto 8.4 GB. My HD is not larger, but linux can apparently see beyond despite the bios. > Before you do another thing, bring up the web site of your > motherboard's maker and download the flash BIOS upgrade for it and > flash-update your BIOS. Unfortunately, does not exist for my motherboard.:-( So it is either another MB or more likely a newer PC. Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185 ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [expert] linux equivalent of Partition Magic? > Jeff Malka wrote: > > > > Is there a linux equivalent to Partition Magic. > > > > I own a copy of PM and I know that PM is compatible with linux. But PM uses > > the BIOS to read the partitions. > > > > Linux will read a much larger hard drive than the bios can read in dos. > > Therefore linux can read and use partitions beyond what the bios can see in > > dos. Presently PM cannot handle the HD part beyond what the bios sees > > because it really runs in DOS and not really under linux. That is why I > > wonder if there is a similar utility that actually runs under linux to > > address the part of the hd beyond bios under dos. > > It is extremely dangerous to try and use hard disks bigger than your > PC BIOS supports - partitions will wrap around and overwrite > themselves with no warning. > > Before you do another thing, bring up the web site of your > motherboard's maker and download the flash BIOS upgrade for it and > flash-update your BIOS. > > -- > Regards, > > Ron. [AU] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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