[Gllug] Booting older x86 boards from a large ide disc

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Mon Aug 30 19:17:15 UTC 2004


On Mon 30 Aug, Chris Bell wrote:
> 
>
>    Some discs have a jumper to limit access, but that would not seem to be
> what I wish to do, even the Debian installer does not find the whole disc.
> Have I missed something? Should I look for a replacement BIOS (if
> available) or is the Open BIOS feasible?
>
   The immediate problem has been sorted after I found an update to the
flash bios. It now even recognises the 120GB disc, the largest I can test it
with at present. 


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Chris Bell

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