On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Jerry Queirolo wrote:
> Stupid question... does my BIOS need large drive support for RH 6.2 to
> recognize the drive? I have an old p100 that's running rh 6.2, with 3 scsi
> drives (1,2, and 4G). The power supply has gotten too loud, so I have a new
> case and pwr supply (old one was non-standard) and when I move things over,
> I'd like to swap out the 3 scsi drives and replace with a 20G IDE that I
> already have. The mobo is an intel zappa (advanced zp), and the bios is
> 1.00.04.BS0 (AMI). I see intel has an update (1.00.06.BS0) available, but
> says nothing of large drive support. I found a 3rd party bios (mr.bios)
> that say they added large drive support, but that's another $50 I'd rather
> not dump into this machine, if I can avoid it.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Jerry Queirolo
>
>
No, you do not need large drive support to use Linux. You do have to
create a /boot partition completely in the part of the drive the BIOS
can handle. It works best if you do not have any partitions when you
install Linux. If fdisk sees the hole disk, (it usualy does), then you
are all set. Just create a 8-16M /boot partition at the start of the
disk, and partition the rest of the disk any way you want. I have takes
several drives that needed a BIOS extension. (disk manager and similar
products that drive manfactures shipped with drive kits.) Under Linux,
I do not need any of that. The key is to make sure the BIOS can see the
part of the drive that the kernel in so, because lilo uses the BIOS to
load the kernel.
Sometimes, you will have to specify to fdisk the drive specs, and also
put them in /etc/lilo.cof. But for most drives, Linux fdisk finds the
correct numbers.
Mikkel
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