Go to the mobo website and start digging , especially in the bios update sections, look up your bios version, and it invariable says something about having upgraded the bios to detect HD size XXXgigs, My bet is yours is 130Gigs, and then some time later they bring out a later bios vesion that upgrades it again to maybe 260Gigs and so on and so forth. You may be unlucky and no mention is made of the HD size limitation, if so you need to contact your mobo manufacturer support desk and ask them what the HD size limitations are on your bios version and can you upgrade.
The BIOS settings is not so important to Linux. I have a disk which is set to 'none' in the BIOS, Windows doesn't see it but it works just fine with Linux!
It's only important for the boot - it's the BIOS that loads LILO from the MBR. After that, Linux uses it's own code to access the disk.
Before you do though look up what the bios is saying about your HD size , if it sees it all it, it ain't a bios limitation, but if it sees 130G then I would think this is where to start.
Sometimes the OS itself has HD limitation but I don't think it is your case .
Not for decently recent Linux kernels. For sure not an issue from MDK9.2 on.
Some modern HD's also have a "cap limit" Jumper and yours may have it set up as limited to 130G, but that is a large "cap limit" in my experience. John
That is a good point. If that is not the issue, then I'm afraid it's a motherboard issue, and there is no cure for that :-(
What motherboard are you using, Eric?
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