Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 00:16 -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
BTW: your 10G drive probably has a jumper to bring it below 8G or 2G,
which is more than enough for a firewall, and will speed the boot.
You will lose the rest of your disk, however.
What's the advantage to this over simply configuring the BIOS to
recognize the disk up to its limit? All the BIOS ever needs to see is
the first 504M/2G/8G of the disk which is where the root filesystem is,
right? And from what I have read, a root filesystem should almost never
be larger than 504M anyway, right?
Because some BIOSes are seriously damaged. I had an old P-90 that
refused to even POST with anything larger than a 2G drive. Lying to get
the system to POST, then putting your kernel within the BIOS' boot
window will get you far enough to let the kernel take over, letting you
use the full drive capacity (usually).
