I have this old p 120 that has a limit of 8 gig harddrive. I dropped a 20gig drive into the box an the bios set it up as 8 gig. then installed linux on it with no problem. linux sees it as a 20 gig drive an it installs an boots from it fine. But im just wondering if I might run into any problems since the bios only sees it as a 8 gig drive. thanks for the info. I know that linux can overcome some bios limites an this proves it. jack
On 4 Apr 2002, jack malone wrote:
I have this old p 120 that has a limit of 8 gig harddrive. I dropped a 20gig drive into the box an the bios set it up as 8 gig. then installed linux on it with no problem. linux sees it as a 20 gig drive an it installs an boots from it fine. But im just wondering if I might run into any problems since the bios only sees it as a 8 gig drive. thanks for the info. I know that linux can overcome some bios limites an this proves it.
Hey Jack: Nope, you should have no problems. Actually, I have the same situation: I have a 10GiB hard drive which the BIOS only recognizes as 8GiB. This IBM drive came with OnTrack software to "fool" the BIOS, but as soon as I found out Linux doesn't need it, I've abandoned it. Like I said, I have no problems, and neither should you. -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0
My KDE will not start... It says [SLE] mtrr type mismatch for fd00000 on start up. Please advise... Jon Jon
-----Original Message----- From: Jon Jon San Juan [mailto:j_sanjuan@ivchd.com] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:36 AM To: noodlez84@earthlink.net; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] mtrr type mismatch for fd00000: My KDE will not start... It says [SLE] mtrr type mismatch for fd00000, 80000, uncachable new, write combining on start up. Please advise... Errors: Jon Jon -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
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My KDE will not start... It says [SLE] mtrr type mismatch for fd00000 on start up. Please advise...
Did you do a rcent kernel upgrade recently ? if so Known problems: --------------- 1) OpenGL/3D applications run very slow after the kernel update With an update to this kernel you will lose 3D hardware support for SuSE 7.1, SuSE 7.2 and SLES7 on graphic boards which are based on the following chipsets: - FireGL 1 - 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee - 3Dfx Voodoo-3/4/5 - Intel i810/i815 - Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 - ATI Rage 180/128Pro/Radeon - 3Dlabs Glint MX/Gamma That's because the DRM modules of this kernel are not compatible with DRI of XFree86 4.0.2/4.0.3. This problem can be resolved by upgrading your system to XFree86 4.1.0. You can find SuSE RPM packages and update instructions for this on our "XFree86 Updates" website. --> http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/xfree86/index.html 2) Graphical login/X Server does not work any more You own a nvidia board and use the 2D/3D driver of nvidia. After the update the correct kernel module NVdriver is missing. You can resolve this problem by downloading the SuSE RPM packages NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX from the nvidia server --> http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux and installing it with the following commands: SuSE 7.1 # rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.suse71.i386.rpm --nodeps --force # rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.suse71.i386.rpm --nodeps --force # switch2nvidia_glx SuSE 7.2/SLES7 # rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.suse72.i386.rpm --nodeps --force # rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.suse72.i386.rpm --nodeps --force # switch2nvidia_glx SuSE 7.3 # rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.suse73.i386.rpm --nodeps --force # rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.suse73.i386.rpm --nodeps --force # switch2nvidia_glx -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx
Nahhh. Your fine. The main function of the BIOS is to tell the OS what hard is there and to manage it. For the most part Linux doesn't need the hand holding that Windows does...so your fine. If Linux sees the whole drive then it should work just peachy. :) * jack malone (jack@malone.tyler.com) [020404 08:59]: :: I have this old p 120 that has a limit of 8 gig harddrive. I ::dropped a 20gig drive into the box an the bios set it up as 8 gig. then ::installed linux on it with no problem. linux sees it as a 20 gig drive an ::it installs an boots from it fine. But im just wondering if I might run ::into any problems since the bios only sees it as a 8 gig drive. thanks for ::the info. I know that linux can overcome some bios limites an this proves ::it. -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC --=====-----=====--
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