On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 12:33  PM, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:

> I have a old machine here (Pentium 233 MHz + PCChips M575) and I'm=20
> trying to put a Seagate HD with 10.2GB to install NetBSD on it.=20
> However, the BIOS of this machine only recognize 8GB.
>
> How can I make the BIOS to recognize all the space of this HD?

Unless the motherboard vendor has a BIOS update that corrects that, you=20=

can't.  But that's ok.  If your root partition is completely within the=20=

first 8G of space, then the bootloader (which uses BIOS routines) can=20
load the kernel.   The kernel doesn't use BIOS routines and will be able=20=

to recognize the entire disk.

jf
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