i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard.
during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of
diskspace
regardless of disk size (eg: 20GB) i attach to the motherboard.
It this limit also true in debian?

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, paragasu <paragasu@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard.
> during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of
> diskspace
> regardless of disk size (eg: 20GB) i attach to the motherboard.
> It this limit also true in debian?

Linux does not use the BIOS to access the disks, so it can use the
full capacity of the disk. However, it might be necessary for the boot
partition to be in the first 2GB of the disk.


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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <ekalin@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, paragasu <paragasu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard.
> > during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of
> > diskspace
> > regardless of disk size (eg: 20GB) i attach to the motherboard.
> > It this limit also true in debian?
>
> Linux does not use the BIOS to access the disks, so it can use the
> full capacity of the disk. However, it might be necessary for the boot
> partition to be in the first 2GB of the disk.
>
>
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thanks for the info Eduardo..