On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Hanish wrote: > If we have a software which directly talks to the HardDisk > controller, then It should be able to curcumvent this problem. However the > boot partition will most probably have to be in the 8.4GB limit as it is the > BIOS that load the initial part of the OS.
I wouldn't be surprised if you can't have a boot disk larger than 8.4GB, but you can have other disks that are larger. I tried this earlier this year (on an old 486-50 motherboard) and wasn't able to get it to work. Linux and the BIOS had different ideas about the hard drive's geometry and they interfered with each other. I wound up getting a different motherboard, which it really needed, anyway. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
