rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because the motherboard is an old VESA > thing (as is the IDE controller) I am worried that it's BIOS won't support > LBA. if this is the case will it be a problem? is there something that i > can do to get around this? am i going to have to upgrade the motherboard > to something newer?
Linux doesn't have a problem with this setup. Linux doesn't use BIOS functions, thus Linux can easily access the entire drive. Lilo - the bootloader - might have problems. Lilo uses BIOS functions to load the kernel from the disk, thus the kernel must reside on a physical location on the disk that is reachable by BIOS functions, i.e. within the first N sectors (N=1024 IIRC). This is easily obtained by partitioning the disk and putting the kernel on the first partition. The rest of the Linux installation can reside anywhere on the disk. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
