Try this; set the drive up normally. If you must, tell your BIOS that
you're using a 1023 cyl, 16 head, 63 sector drive. (LILO uses the BIOS
but Linux, once loaded, does not.) Have a boot partition (your root)
entirely below the 1023 cylinder limit. Everything else goes on after
that.
I did this on an old Epson laptop. 486SLC2/50 with a 1.0 GB hard drive.
Win95 has the first 400 megs, my root partition takes up 80 megs, and then
/usr and my swap partitions occupy the rest of the drive. No lost
capacity, works like a charm.
> I have an old Digital 486DX33 low profile box that I'd like to use Linux
> with... the problem is it has a standard IDE disk controler on-board.
> It can't see all of a larger EIDE disk, and I need at least 2GB to use.
> I assume the 500MB limitation is in the old IDE controler and adding a
> SCSI card would cure that problem. Anyone know of a good ISA SCSI card
> that works well with Linux, or, better, where I could get one? Haven't
> seen any on any Web sites that sell relatively new equipment..
>
> Any ideas on how to get the old box to see all 2GB of an EIDE disk I
> have would also do the trick.
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> -Fred
>
>
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