> I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for
> different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that
> can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that
> you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly
> supports the particular disk but once that is done DOS is happy to
> ignore the BIOS. Is this the case with Linux? Is it necessary to
> pass the disk parameters to the kernel at boot time?
Linux ignores BIOS totally, lilo doesn't.
I am in exactly the same situation (older BIOS, new 1.7G hard drive) and
I had no problems partitioning and formating it in linux.
I do not supply disk parameters to the kernel, but this might depend on
the type of hard drive you use.
Alex Y.
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