I dont have a HP, but had a similar problem in the past. Linux in general doesnt pay much attention to bios disk sizes. The problem is booting - many bios's cant easily boot from an oversized drive. Easiest is keep the 17 G for the boot partition (and in my case a second "rescue" install of linux so when it all goes pear shaped I can recover quickly) Once the bios has handed over to the kernel, the drive worked fine. (4.5 bigfoot/80G seagate)
BillK On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:07 +0000, Steve wrote: > I'm looking to upgrade a 17GB H/D in an old HP Brio BA (~400Mhz Celeron) > to a 250GB one. I am warned that there are BIOS limitations which > prevent me directly accessing more than 66GB - which sounds like a > problem - but that I can circumvent this using drive-overlay software > (under windows.) [The BIOS is Phoenix 4.0 Release 6.] > > I'm not getting anywhere looking for BIOS updates - can anyone tell me > if this BIOS limitation will be an issue for Gentoo? Is there some > kernel configuration which would achieve the same goal as using the > "drive overlay software"? > > Thanks in advance, > > Steve > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- [email protected] mailing list
