Al Boldi wrote: > Stefan Reinauer wrote: >> What is your requirement? Loading Windows? > > Loading Linux, on an i440bx with a brain-dead AwardBIOS that can't boot USB, > nor can it boot disks >32GB.
Ah, the factory BIOS versions back then. Usually applying the latest upgrade helped a bit. But even if the 32 GB barrier remained, there were two ways to boot from larger harddisks: * Clipping the capacity of the drive with a jumper and und clipping it via software while Linux was booting. * Installing the Linux /boot partition into the first 8 GB. I haven't seen any factory BIOS with 32 GB limit which didn't work with at least one of the tricks above. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
