Check your Lilo. If you have an old system, you might need to append /linear in roder to see all 40Gigs!
Jenner Almánzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks!!! > > It sounds very good to me, i understand you perfectly, now, can you think of > any reason why in the BIOS i can see the 40Gb disk and when i'm going to > create the partitions, on linux, it only reads 8Gb? > > Jenner > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:24 AM > Subject: Re: Problem with disk space > > > > Nope, > > It just means that when using LBA (provided your BIOS ain't antique!), you > will be able to address above the 8GB point. Booting from BEYOND 8GB might > (or will) be a problem. > > To summarize: partition your disk at will, but make sure you've got a > small (< 20MB) Ext2fs partition with mointpoint "/boot" BEFORE the 8GB > point. Your root, usr, dev and whatever partitions you want to have can be > beyond the 8GB. > > > > Jenner Almánzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > But, should i ignore that it only reads 8Gb instead of 40Gb? > > > __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
