Ryan said------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------
Actually, because the BIOS will not recognize the cylinder configuration, it will not boot from that drive. The bios brings the machine to a full stop when it tries to load the disk - no disk error, just a hard freeze. That is why I am interested in these boards because they can be used as an alternate boot. The only thing I don't know is if they will be properly read after the boot without a Linux specific driver. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dunham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 7:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ATA/100 Controllers on Linux? > > > 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. And so on... _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
