Message-ID: <3F06C9859CA7D31194ED0000D1ECC4AB072E09B6@pkcexv007.sprintspectrum.com> From: "Duston, Hal" <hdusto01@sprintspectrum.com> Subject: RE: new partition Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:03:47 -0600
Since Linux doesn't use bios after loading the kernel, this
should not be an issue for it.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html
has an excellent discussion and history of these issues.
Hal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike neuliep [mailto:mike@illiana.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 10:49 AM
> To: gdascher@home.com; kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: new partition
>
>
> Wow, I didn't know you could have a /dev/hda9. Though bios
> only allowed eight
> partitions on an IDE device. /dev/hda1-4 are primary and
> /dev/hda5-8 are
> extended. This might have something to do with the problem.
>
> Mike
>
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