[H-GEN] Large hard drive support

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, David Johnston wrote:

> I have had the same problem using LILO with a 3.2GB drive in an old Pentium 
> P60. The BIOS didn't recognise the drive' CHS specs - I have it set up as 
> 1036MB 5512cyls 18hds 63 secs LARGE mode. I suspect that it is more of a 
> BIOS problem and I have been booting from a floppy until I get around to 

Yep it is most definately a BIOS problem.  Linux can see the entire disk
once it is up and running after all.  Upgrade the bios or ensure that the
boot image is in the first 1024 cylinders to ensure it always works.

> upgrading the BIOS. Linux finds and uses the full hda3 partition without a 
> problem. I actually removed LILO (with "fdisk /mbr") so that I can still 
> boot dos from the HDD.

You could consider using loadlin from dos to boot Linux.  Or alternatively
you could use lilo to boot linux and dos.
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
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