drive question

[Gregory Nowak]

The machine is from about 1994 I believe, and the bios is not
flashable.

When I posted a while back that I can't put a newer drive in this
system, several people responded that yes I can, as long as lilo is
located below the 1024th cylinder. Then, I will supposedly be able to
have the kernel access the rest of the drive when it boots. 

Also, it was my impression that the kernel does it's own hardware
handling for hard disks independent of the bios.

Greg


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:03:57PM -0500, Luke Davis wrote:
> How old is the computer?  Can you do a flash of the BIOS?
> 
> You are suggesting, that one can lie to the CMOS, boot the system on a
> small portion of the drive, and then Linux will be able to access the
> entire drive, despite the BIOS?  Interesting, I didn't think that worked.
> 
> Luke
> 
> 

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