Re: Large hd with old bios and Linux

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From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 00:00

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stephen.howard@accc.gov.au (Stephen Howard) writes:

>I have a 2yr old Osborne with that has a phoenix bios that won't 
>read a hd >500mb.  If I install a 1.2gb drive, can I use
>the bottom 500mb for dos and the remainder for Linux?  Or is Linux 
>dependent on the bios for accessing the drive's high cylinders?

Yes, you can do that. The only requirement is that the files that
are used to load the kernel (ie via the BIOS) are below the 1024
cylinder mark. You can store those on your DOS partition or just
make a small (<1MB) linux partition below the 1024 cyl mark to store
these files.

The file /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/README.IDE has lots of useful
information and timps on how to set things up. If you can't access
that file simply because you don't have linux installed yet, let me
know and I will e-mail you a copy.

Paul.

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Date: 1996/05/21
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