[Beds] Re: Large disks and old computers

[Neil Darlow]

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Hi Jon,

On Monday 10 Feb 2003 10:17, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> I'm looking to get hold of an old pentium computer and stick a large hard
> drive in it to use for storage.  What I'm not usre about is whether I will
> have any problems using a large (say 60Gig) IDE drive with an old
> motherboard.
> I know there are problems with the BIOS being able to boot from large hard
> drives but I understood that as long as the BIOS could see the partition
> with the boot image in it (and the boot image was visible to the BIOS too)
> then it would boot OK and when linux loaded it talked directly to the IDE
> controller.  So I guess my question is that assuming I am right with the
> BIOS issue will I have any problems from the IDE controller and large
> disks?

As long as the kernel resides below cylinder 1024 there should be no problem. 
This usually means having a separate /boot partition or ensuring / is below 
1024 cylinders (I usually do the latter by just having a 256MB / partition).

Regards,
Neil Darlow M.Sc. -- Beds LUGmaster
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