On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:28 +0000, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Steve wrote: > > I'm looking to upgrade a 17GB H/D in an old HP Brio BA (~400Mhz Celeron) > > to a 250GB one. I am warned that there are BIOS limitations which > > prevent me directly accessing more than 66GB - which sounds like a > > problem - but that I can circumvent this using drive-overlay software > > (under windows.) [The BIOS is Phoenix 4.0 Release 6.] > > > > I'm not getting anywhere looking for BIOS updates - can anyone tell me > > if this BIOS limitation will be an issue for Gentoo? Is there some > > kernel configuration which would achieve the same goal as using the > > "drive overlay software"? > > IIRC, so long as the BIOS can see the whole of the boot partition (i.e. > whatever /boot is on), then it'll be fine. The kernel will normally > perform it's own probe and lookup on the hard-drive during booting and > then work from there. So long as the kernel can support large hard > drives, it shouldn't be a problem.
For as long as I can rememeber, I never had problems with large disks and Bioses. I even have a 200GB drive on a PII 300 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:11:17 up 3:00, 4 users, load average: 2.27, 1.70, 1.39 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
