On Sat, 22 May 1999, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> >I would like to put a larger hard drive in my laptop, but I think I
> >read something like that the BIOS won't support a larger one. Will it
> >work with Linux anyway, if I boot with a hard drive geometry kernel
> >command line option?
> >
> You don't say what the BIOS limit is, as there were several. If
> your limit was 512Megs (the 1024 cylinders thing), as long as you boot
> linux under the limit, you're fine.
>
> It just might be 1024Megs (Large mode ). Same applies
>
> However, if the limit is 8.4 Gigabytes, you're stuck for a
> little while at least.
I've got a couple of friends who claim to have run into this limit, but also
know people claiming to have 18 gig disks w/ a single partition. One friend
couldn't see anything beyond 8 something gig on the disk using one or
multiple partitions.
How does one get around this problem?
danke,
der.hans
PS
Most of them are running a pretty stock redhat 5.x or are trying to install
it
> If your Bios limit is elsewhere, talk to us! I'm all ears ;-)
>
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> (now at [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Declan Moriarty
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