Large HD, old BIOS

Cole Tuininga colet at code-energy.com
Mon May 3 10:16:01 EDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 09:58, Ed Lawson wrote:
> Did you create a /boot partition at the beginning of the drive of 
> around 50M in size 

About 100-150M (depending on the distro), but yes.

> and did you tell the BIOS that you were using LBA when the
> drive was formatted using it or vice versa?  

I dunno - what is LBA?  How do I find out if my drive "is LBA" or not? 
How do I find out if my BIOS can handle it?

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Cole Tuininga
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