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  From: Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
  To  : Bruce Moffatt <bmoffatt@picknowl.com.au>
  Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 13:06:40 +0930

Re: [OT] IBM PSV

Bruce Moffatt wrote:

> He has added more ram (now 32M) and a 6.??Gb hard drive. The hard
> drive is only recognised as 500 Mb, and it seems that this may be
> a BIOS limitation on that machine.

It certainly does sounds like a common BIOS problem.  If your friend
is going to be running Linux on it exclusively, this won't be that much
of a limitation, as once Linux has booted it will use its own driver
to access the hard disk, and therefore won't see the amputated disk
drive.  The problem though is that LILO uses the BIOS to boot, so
any kernel that LILO boots must be accessible via the BIOS.  I usually
create a /boot partition of about 20 megs as the first partition on
machines that suffer this problem, then lay out the rest of the system
as I see fit.  If you need to dual boot Windows, then I'd suggest
laying out the disk as:

Partition #1)     /boot
Partition #2)     Windows
Partition #3..X)  / and friends.

Regards,
  Daryl Tester

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