Re: drive overlay

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Lee Helpingstine said:
> Does anyone know of a way to get linux to recognize a 20GB drive when the
> BIOS will not?  I've got and old ppro 180 and a 20GB drive for
> reprehensible.net, got the board and discovered it didn't support over
> 8gb.  Anybody have any clue?  

Once the kernel boots, it should see the whole disk.  If you use if
for the OS, just make a /boot filesystem at the beginning of the disk.
Even with a broken BIOS, lilo should be able to find the kernel.

Steve
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