Will the bios let you set custom hdd settings? Many will, if this is the
case just plug in the settings for your drive. The bios should only pick up the
first 540 megs. If you install lilo on the MBR and you have the /boot partition
at the start of the hdd then all should be okay, Linux does not care about hdd
settings in the bios beyond the boot issue. If you can not plug in custom hdd
setting with this bios, then I don't know what to tell you.
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> ok, so I want to install Mandrake on this computer. As it stands now I am
> having a very hard time getting support from NEC because the machine is so
> old. They did come out with a bios that would autoconfig a drive and also
> could do LBA mode. But I have had no luck flashing this machine with it.
> They say it might not work because its for European machines. But I own
> another slower laptop that HAS been upgraded to this bios. HO HUM..
>
> ANyway.. what your saying is.. let the bios dectect it as whatever it
> wants.. then when I boot from the /boot partition which will be inside that
> "fake" drive it will then see the true size of the drive??
>
> I am not sure on this.. as I have had problems with it finding incompatable
> drive sizes before (posted about a week ago)
>
> HMMMMMMMM
>
>
> >> /boot 15 megs
> >> / 1000 megs
> >> /home bal
> >> swap 128
> >>
> >> Extrapolate this for the size drive you have. A quick note on swap
> space: Any
> >> swap space above 128 megs is a waste. Linux will not use more than 128
> megs per
> >> mounted swap partition. If you need more swap space, make 2 swap
> partitions at
> >> 128 megs.
> >>
> >> and then make another partition for
> >> > "/" that takes up a large chunk (if not all) of the rest of the drive
> space.
> >> > That should allow the system to boot with a hard drive larger than the
> >> > system recognizes...
> >> > John
> >>
> >> --
> >> Brett Jones
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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