Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 11:03:10AM -0400, Mike Miller wrote: On my machine at home I'm running a 486sx33 IBM PS/1 with an old BIOS. For dos, I installed the western digital overlay that allows access, but in Linux, it ran perfect w/o it. According to WD, however, if you ask them, Linux is broken because it doesn't use the BIOS. Yeah, and Win95 is fixed. That'll be the day. There's a largedisk howto (or maybe it's a mini-howto). Check it out, I found it to be very helpful. Good luck. Fortunately, if you do need Disk Manager anyway (due to booting to DOS etc), Linux is fine with it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 51% Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. True. For that matter, it does recongnize the drive as having a 63 offset to allow for DM -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?
On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 11:03:10AM -0400, Mike Miller wrote: On my machine at home I'm running a 486sx33 IBM PS/1 with an old BIOS. For dos, I installed the western digital overlay that allows access, but in Linux, it ran perfect w/o it. According to WD, however, if you ask them, Linux is broken because it doesn't use the BIOS. Yeah, and Win95 is fixed. That'll be the day. There's a largedisk howto (or maybe it's a mini-howto). Check it out, I found it to be very helpful. Good luck. Fortunately, if you do need Disk Manager anyway (due to booting to DOS etc), Linux is fine with it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 51% Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?
Chris Brown wrote: I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly supports the particular disk but once that is done DOS is happy to ignore the BIOS. Is this the case with Linux? Is it necessary to pass the disk parameters to the kernel at boot time? * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! On my machine at home I'm running a 486sx33 IBM PS/1 with an old BIOS. For dos, I installed the western digital overlay that allows access, but in Linux, it ran perfect w/o it. According to WD, however, if you ask them, Linux is broken because it doesn't use the BIOS. Yeah, and Win95 is fixed. That'll be the day. There's a largedisk howto (or maybe it's a mini-howto). Check it out, I found it to be very helpful. Good luck. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?
I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly supports the particular disk but once that is done DOS is happy to ignore the BIOS. Is this the case with Linux? Is it necessary to pass the disk parameters to the kernel at boot time? Linux ignores BIOS totally, lilo doesn't. I am in exactly the same situation (older BIOS, new 1.7G hard drive) and I had no problems partitioning and formating it in linux. I do not supply disk parameters to the kernel, but this might depend on the type of hard drive you use. Alex Y. * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?
I have had no problems partitioning and installing Linux on 1.2 gig and 3.5 gig drives on old 386 machines. I boot the install floppy and proceed from there. I usually just create a boot floppy. This loads the kernel into memory and IDE access from there is handled w/o the obsolete BIOS. On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Chris Brown wrote: I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly supports the particular disk but once that is done DOS is happy to ignore the BIOS. Is this the case with Linux? Is it necessary to pass the disk parameters to the kernel at boot time? +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Now shipping version 1.3.X + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[INSTALL] Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Chris Brown wrote: I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly supports the particular disk but once that is done DOS is happy to ignore the BIOS. Is this the case with Linux? Is it necessary to pass the disk parameters to the kernel at boot time? Older BIOS usually means: no LBA translation, so the BIOS and any program that uses only BIOS calls cannot access the part of the disk that is beyond 540 MB. The linux kernel does not use the BIOS, so it is perfectly happy with the large disk. But, the kernel has to be loaded at some time on bootup. Because lilo uses BIOS calls for this, the kernel image (/vmlinuz) must be below the 540 MB limit or lilo cannot boot it. This does not apply if your you can use LBA mode on the disk (improbable with old 386 hardware). Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
