On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:41:56PM -0800, Mike Bresnahan wrote: > The question is, how big a HD will it support? As big of a harddrive as you want. Linux doesn't rely upon the BIOS to tell it how large a harddrive is. It's really a moot point. The easiest solution is to defer the boot device to something that the BIOS and your boot loader can handle. i.e. A small harddrive, a flash rom, a floppy drive, a cdrom. I'm going to assume that you would like to refrain from having to boot with a floppy or CDROM. If you really don't want to eat up an IDE channel with an old 80MB harddrive, consider buying a diskonchip PCI card to boot from. Then again, you'll eat up a PCI slot... You could always operate with the harddrive under the premise that the first boot partition is less than 512MB. Yes, yes, we know boot loaders can see past this, but can they see around the BIOS limitations. If the answer is yes, then go for it. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011116/d909587c/attachment.pgp