[linux-help] Re: Hard Drive Upgrade

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Steven Saner
>
> Actually, Linux doesn't care about that limitation because it handles
> disk I/O, rather than the BIOS. The only thing you need to do is make
> sure that the boot partition is in the first 540MB of the hard drive
> so it will boot (which requires the BIOS). Once booted, there should
> be no problem (or so that has been my experience with at least a 1.2GB
> drive).
>
On one of my Linux boxes I have a 40G drive that the bios doesn't even see. Once
Linux boots off the smaller drive it recognizes the that the larger drive is
installed and works perfectly. Some large drives can work as boot drives even if
the bios doesn't recognize it, but others don't.  Your best bet is to read the
large disc howto at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO

--dwh

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