Doesent matter any more. create a /boot partion at the start , then when the kernal starts up it will read what the drive is and see the rest of it. You can even screw with the setting on the real old bios that dont autdetect , so it will see somthing to boot and load the kernal. once th3e kernal takes over it sees whats actualy there. There are ven optios to pass the kernal the actual drive specs as well. Linux you know. You can do anything with it. At 11:24 PM 3/24/2000 -0800, Warrl wrote:
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Nick Zentena wrote:
One thing check the bios. Older bios won't handle the new large HDs.
Any BIOS with HD autodetection will do. You just need to be able to get 4-10 meg in the first 1,023 cylinders. For a partition which you will map to /boot.
Then the Linux kernel takes over, and the BIOS disk routines no longer matter.
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