install and use of linux with a drive too big for bios

[Leo Mauler]

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:

> On Friday 31 December 2004 07:05 am, Leo Mauler
> wrote:
> 
> > You can always go the third route I didn't 
> > mention last time, which is booting from a 
> > USB pendrive, if your motherboard supports 
> > booting from a USB device.
> 
> Ok, let's think about this for just a minute 
> here - the motherboard doesn't support a 120G 
> HD, but it's gonna support a USB boot device?

I only mentioned it because I've got an Asus K7133C
motherboard (with a 1.3GHz Duron) which has the "USB
Device" option in the boot options in the BIOS...but
the motherboard has a 64GB limitation on the boot
drive.

I upgraded the BIOS and everything, and the new 80GB
drive I bought wouldn't boot on the motherboard.



		
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