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Re: [edlug] New hard disk for 'oldish' mobo
I've just put an 80 gig HD into an old-ish mobo (P2). The BIOS
mis-detected it as 16 meg or something...
Linux (i'I'm using Mandrake9.2) doesn't seem to care and detects it
correctly.
I don't think Linux uses the BIOS here, so yes the kernel being
sufficiently up to date would be the factor.
I guess there might still be problems with ACPM, but i don't know..
Cheers,
Paul.
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 18:40, Chris Sinclair wrote:
> As far as I know, once you can boot the system off one hard disk you can
> put whatever you like in for the others, you just tell the BIOS there is
> nothing there.
>
> My PC can only support 8GB hard disks so I boot off a 2GB one as HDA and
> have a 40GB one as the main installation space.
>
> From fstab:
>
> /dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdc5 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> ...
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> I'm fairly sure this will work anywhere as long as the kernel is up to
> date (>2.4.21 I think)
>
> Chris...
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