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From: Santiago Garcia Mantinan <manty@manty.net>
To: jlladono@pie.xtec.es
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.x kernels, big ide disks and old bios
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 15:10:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011225141019.GA3092@man.beta.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C285B40.91A83EC7@jep.dhis.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C285B40.91A83EC7@jep.dhis.org>

> bios only supports disks up to 32 Gb.
> hard disk is 60 Gb.

What I'm using is change the geometry after the boot and before any
partition besides root is mounted, I do this at the beginning of
checkroot.sh by calling "/sbin/setmax -d 0 /dev/hda" but you can do it on
your own script or where ever you want, just taking care that it is done
befor any FS that goes above the 32gigs is accessed.

Setmax is a small program that I downloaded from the net, sorry, I don't
remember where did I download it from or his author, but it was posted to
this list some time ago, I have a version for the 2.4 kernel at
ftp.manty.net/linux/programs/setmax.c

This works ok for me, of course you can have other solutions.

Regards...
-- 
Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-25 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-25 10:56 2.4.x kernels, big ide disks and old bios Josep Lladonosa i Capell
2001-12-25 14:10 ` Santiago Garcia Mantinan [this message]
2001-12-25 19:09 ` James Stevenson
2001-12-26 16:33   ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-27 13:14     ` James Stevenson
2001-12-27 18:51       ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-27 19:53         ` Ido Diamant
2001-12-27 22:41         ` Guest section DW
2001-12-27 23:04           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-28  0:06             ` [PATCH] " Eric Lammerts
2001-12-28  3:29             ` Andre Hedrick
2001-12-30  1:40               ` Josep Lladonosa i Capell
2001-12-28 21:52 ` Jorge Nerin
2001-12-30  9:33   ` Josep Lladonosa i Capell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-25 16:38 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-25 22:52 ` Eric Lammerts
2001-12-26  9:28   ` Josep Lladonosa i Capell
2001-12-26 10:39 ` Santiago Garcia Mantinan
2001-12-26  2:12 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-30  2:47 Andries.Brouwer

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