[linux-help] Re: Seeing past 2GB on a 7GB drive

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxx>]

You do not say what the motherboard is, nor anything else about the
hardware.
It is possible that the bios is preventing the installer from seeing the
entire drive.

The bios limitations and dos limitations are the reason early drives
larger than 2GB had the drive managers installed so they could fake the
bios into seeing only 2GB when the system was really using the entire
drive as a single partition. However, the drive managers only worked
with dos and windows as far as I know.

Another possibility might be the way you are setting up the partitions.
Remember that Linux requires the boot OS to be located within the first
1024 cylinders of the drive.  On a 7GB drive that is not likely to be an
issue, but could be.

John Reinke wrote:
> 
> A friend of mine is trying to install Mandrake onto a 7 GB Maxtor
> hard drive. It sees the entire drive when using fdisk and such, but
> when he uses the Mandrake installer, it never sees beyond 2GB.
> 
> I should mention that he works on computers for living (mostly
> Windows), so he understands primary and extended partitions. Also,
> Windows NT is able to see the whole drive.
> 
> Anyone have an idea what the problem is?
> 
> John
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