Robert Hoffman wrote:
> Linux doesn't have a problem with 13 BG drives; I'm running
> on a 30 GB drive right now. If you have some old machine,
> your bios may not recognize the 13 BG drive. There are two
> ways around this: See if there's a bios update for your
> motherboard that recognizes 13 GB harddrives. If there isn't,
> make a boot disk during your Linux install and start up the
> computer using it each time (make a backup bootdisk with the
> command 'mkbootdisk' after you get it going... that way, you
> have a spare.) My workstation at my last job needed a
> bootdisk to get going because it was an old, crappy cyrix
> machine and I stuck a 10 GB drive in it.
>
> You might try setting up a /boot partition of about 15 meg
> during install which may save you the hastles of boot disks.
> It may work and it may not. Either way, as a non-profit org
> who can't be choosy, using a boot disk on a machine that only
> has to be restarted after a power failure shouldn't be that painful.
>
Or you could try the latest version of lilo which is now supposed to handle
the larger disk drives with no problems.
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