"Oliver Elphick" wrote:
> >-13gb HD
> >
> >this machine also boots to Windows 98, which resides on a 3 GB partition.
> >
> >I was told that debian would "see" the entire hd, but cfdisk only "saw" a
> to
> >tal of 8 GB.
>
>It depends on how your BIOS describes the disk. You need to tell it the
>details printed on the disk case, which will be larger than the default
>largest numbers. This might need a BIOS upgrade.
>
>I found that I got your problem when the LBA option was set in the BIOS.
>When I specified the disk geometry instead, it worked.
I seem to be wrong about the LBA; I had to use the USER option -- AUTO produced
the wrong answer, but LBA was still set.
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