[NTLUG:Discuss] EZ-BIOS

[Kyle_Davenport@compusa.com]

No, I think if the bios doesn't recognize the whole hard drive, installing boot
on the first part of it won't help (you will still see only 8 GB of it).   If
you install EZ-Bios, linux will not see the same (virtual) addresses on the hard
drive.  Your best bet is a bios upgrade.

Hard drives are already a system bottleneck - it's silly to add another
translation layer.





Dale Massey <dmassey at utdallas.edu> on 09/20/99 08:22:40 AM

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Subject:  Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] EZ-BIOS



"Carter B. Bennett" wrote:
>
> I just picked up a 17.?GB Maxtor for 2 or 3 dollars at Fry's. Well maybe
> not that cheap but darn reasoniable. My question is, the computer I
> installed to is 3 years old and the BIOS won't support anything 8.?GB, to
> get the full size of the drive I had to use EZ-BIOS, an overlay software, I
> want to install Suse 6.2 or RH 6.0 What do I need to tell LILO or where do
> I install LILO to make everything work?
>
> I have never used this kind of thing with Linux before.
>
>
> You may be able to kill two birds with one stone, but, in the end when it's
> all over, all you really have are two dead birds, and your short one stone.
>
> Carter B. Bennett
> Little House Computer Service (LHCS)
> Proud user of Linux & Linux Based Products
>
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I have had some luck with the larger hard drives by doing the following:

/boot >>> first 100mb of drive

after that you can do what you want with the rest of the space.


Dale Massey

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