In message <821FC1FD-C738-11D6-BBBF-000393677372@elfie.org>, John Frankli=
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>On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 12:33  PM, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
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>> I have a old machine here (Pentium 233 MHz + PCChips M575) and I'm =

>> trying to put a Seagate HD with 10.2GB to install NetBSD on it. =

>> However, the BIOS of this machine only recognize 8GB.
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>> How can I make the BIOS to recognize all the space of this HD?
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>Unless the motherboard vendor has a BIOS update that corrects that, you =

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

>first 8G of space, then the bootloader (which uses BIOS routines) can =

>load the kernel.   The kernel doesn't use BIOS routines and will be able=
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>to recognize the entire disk.
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Can sysinst figure out the real disk size, or do we have to enter the =

geometry manually?

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