-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 July 2003 07:42 am, Michael Dunham wrote: > I am reviving an old Pentium II machine to use as my desktop at home. I > got an old copy of Mandrake up on it and I am making good headway getting > the hardware organized into something that I can then upgrade to either a > more current version of Linux or FreeBSD. My current problem is the BIOS > doesn't read larger hard drives. I have a 13gb that would work fine as the > root disk but for now I am restricted to the original disk at 1.9gb which > is just plain too small. > > I tried upgrading the BIOS but it is an ASUS and they haven't issued any > upgrades for this board since 1998. The upgrade they have didn't address > drive sizes. Ugh. There is a 2 channel ATA/100 board from Startech > (http://www.startech.com/ststore/itemdetail.cfm?ProductID=PCI2IDE100&topbar >= topbario.htm) that some of the online outlets list as a "Linux compatible" > (Startech doesn't mention it) but I haven't been able to find any evidence > that anyone has actually used one for a Linux installation. My concern is > that some boards require drivers and they are only available for Windoze > generally ;-( > > Does anyone have any experience with this or other add-on controller boards > on a Linux installation as a workaround for larger disks? It seems like it > should be a normal thing to do...
Mike, try installing with a small (20 oe 30 megs or so is what I use) partition at the begining of the drive, and place /boot there. Your kernel may be able to address the whole drive without any problems. A quick way to tell if this will work is to try a boot disk (CD or floppy) and see if it can access the whole drive. - -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` Also available at http://www.cal.net/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/EtXhEd9E83IXe8cRAh4eAJwJSH2RJ59YICKEKz8M+YGppejjbgCfSRw8 SJVCy1YCRRX/3L9oNldGEu0= =ES93 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
