On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 09:26:13PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Are you telling me that EVERYBODY with IDE disks makes their root < 504mb > > > and at the start of the disk, or has a small /boot? I've never done it, > > > and I've had no problem. I've been running Linux for over 3 years. > > > > Do DOS and your BIOS see the disk as just 500 GB though? > > DOS sees all of it. I use LBA mode. It works fine.
Of course. The situation discussed was for non-LBA BIOSs, where the BIOS, DOS, LILO cannot deal with cylinders >1024. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen