Thanks for all who have answered my original question. Among other things, I
tried what Alan told me ( to install 2.2.14 ) but with no success. Late on, I
tried to define a bogus configuration of heads, sectors and cylinders in the
Lilo disk section with no success ( also on 2.2.14 ).
Tonight I'll try to pass the linear parameter to LILO ( didn't have a lot of
time lately to start another rebooting ). If that doesn;t work, then I'll try
either DOS fdisk, Partition Manager, or OnTrak Disk Manager. Hopefully, I'll
have success with some of this.
I don't believe that the BIOS is working bad ( as it recognizes the hard drive
). However, I might be wrong.
Hugo
Khimenko Victor wrote:
>
> In <Pine.OSF.3.96.1000206173721.18512A-100000@ernie.cs.pitt.edu> Hugo L. Varotto (hvarotto@cs.pitt.edu) wrote:
>
> > Now, the problem is that the new BIOS recognized the new hard drive as a
> > 17.2 GB, but
> > Linux recognizes it only as an 8 GB hard drive.
>
> It's still BIOS problem though :-/ I've seen this.
>
> > NT recognizes it only as a 2 GB hard drive,
> > but that I believe is OK 'cause the documentation of the hard drive
> > indicates that in order
> > to get it recognized, I'll need to update NT to at least Service Pack 4. I
> > don't use NT as
> > much as to need to get the new service pack, so I'll devoid the new hard
> > drive completely
> > to Linux.
>
> > So, my question is: how to I get Linux to recognize the full size of the
> > hard drive ?
>
> You should create partition table there to span the entire disk. If BIOS is
> broken then you can sometimes do it with Windows9X's FDISK and/or Partition
> Magic. When you have correct partition table Linux will be able to use full
> capacity of disk without any troubles even if you have broken BIOS.
>
> > Is there a special option that I need to set up in the kernel or a module to
> > do it ?
>
> No.
>
> > RH 6.1 comes with a program ( kudzu ) that supposedly is used to
> > recognized new devices,
> > but it fails miserably ( segmentation fault ) with this hard drive.
> > Admittedly, I'm
> > using the kudzu that comes originally with RH 6.1 ( haven't checked if
> > there's an update ).
>
> Never seen this program :-)
>
> > If for whatever reason nobody knows what's going wrong, I could run some
> > tests ( provided
> > that soemone explains me what to do 'cause I've never delved in the
> > filesystem modules
> > of the kernel, so I'm not sure what to try ) to get this solved.
>
> > Below I'm attaching the configuration of the BIOS, and the output of fdisk
> > and cfdisk.
> > I've created a 2 GB partition in the drive from NT to see if somehow
> > afterwards Linux
> > recognizes it as a 17.2 hard drive, but with no success.
>
> It's common problem: you BIOS is "good enough" for Windows9X but not "good
> enough" for Linux :-(( Since Linux will not use BIOS when there are exist
> correct parttion table on disk you can just plug disk in some "normal" system
> and partition it (BTW why I've seen LOTS of such problems with IBM,
> Dell and other brands but NEVER see such problems with
> make-it-yourself-from-cheneese-components systems? Hmm. All such system use
> Award BIOS typically while brands are using it's own BIOS... Hmm).
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