On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:19:34 +0530 (IST) St Xaviers College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My computer on opening shows at first "Trident TVGA BIOS >C4.5(01)" and then after this screen refreshes writes first "Award Modular BIOS >V4.50G An Enery Award Ally". > > I do not know what is my BIOS. The BIOS of your Video card is the Trident BIOS. You'll need this information when setting up your X-Server The Main Board BIOS is Award BIOS. Linux generally doesn't care one way or the other about this. (By the way BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System). This is the hardware interface between the CPU and the I/O ports. Linux will end up controlling these directly. > I want to upgrade my disc. However, my vendor asked whether >there shall be any problem with a 4.3GB HDD, i.e., whether my BIOS shall >recognise it or not. He had problems like this when he tried to do so >for a Windows 95 system, but he had no problems on installing a 2.1GB HDD. >I heard that Linux bypasses the BIOS. As a general rule, the BIOS is not capable of looking past 540 megs on boot-up of the system. DOS/Windows needs a driver to interface between the drive ports and BIOS to see the entire hard drive. Linux only has to have this info at boot time and is therefore limited to having the kernel within the first 540 megs in order to boot without using a floppy. (Using a floppy is not bad however :-) Typically what I do is partition my boot drive into four partitions, the first partition being the boot partition and less than 540 megs in size. I never have any problems. I do this on all computers whether 386, 486, or 586 pc's or clones. (Of course I have yet to set on up on a computer built less that two years ago since now my older ones fly on Linux and so don't see the need to upgrade yet) BIOS may heve improved. There is lots of information in the Linux HOWTO's and in the LDP directory of your distribution (Running Linux is in there). It would be wise of you to read any documents that look relevent to your situation before you load for the first time. > > Help me here. Also, what is this problem ? Please elaborate. > > Thanks in advance. > >Partha Pratim Ghosh > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
