It is my understanding that the later kernels only need BIOS support for
the booting process and that Linux "takes over" after that point. You
can't use > 1023 for the / partition, but once IN Linux it can be used.
Perhaps it was the way you did it or you tried it long enough ago that the
support wasn't there?
I just put a 4G drive in an unfriendly 486 and had no problems having
Linux see my whole disk. I put in a 30MB DOS partition at the beginning, a
200 MB / partition and did the rest after the install.
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> This is my understanding of what's going on. It may explain your problem.
> I've also included my own (E)IDE experience.
>
> This is long. you've been warned.
>
> (If anyone can confirm or correct me, it would be greatly appreciated)
_Deirdre * http://disclaimer.deirdre.org * http://www.deirdre.net
"Linux is a very complete and sophisticated operating system," said
[Paul] Maritz, Microsoft's group vice president for platforms and
applications. "There are and will be large numbers of applications
available for it."
