[plug] BIOSes, >32Gig HDDs & Linux

[Trevor Phillips]

On Saturday 19 June 2004 11:55, raven at themaw.net wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> > So the question is, I suppose, now: Is this correct, and safe? ^_^
> > Can I rely on Linux to correctly handle this HDD for its full capacity,
> > even tho the BIOS wants nothing to do with it?
>
> It's my understanding that, once up and running Linux does not use the
> BIOS to access storage and so this should be fine.
>
> Bootstraping the kernel has always been the tricky part.

Thanks. Kernel/booting isn't an issue, as I have 2 smaller HDDs in the box 
that'll remain system drives.

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