SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message <<

Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:46:56 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: 8G Boot Boundary

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

In <3C76EC39.E9FD20A0@pacbell.net>, on 02/22/02
at 06:08 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>How much newer a BIOS ? I hope I won't run into this with whatever Award
>bios comes with the Asus P3B-F I'm about to move to. (The last BIOS rev.
>for that board is 1006, but it's probably a couple years old by now.)

You should check the ASUS website. That's new enough to support the INT13
extensions. Worst case you won't be able to boot from the very end of the
drive, but is that a problem for you?

>Well, I'd sure like to find out *before* I put in a larger than 9G drive
>(the largest size I've worked with to date).

Wouldn't we all?

>fancier arrangement, and the first h/d goes down, are you S.O.L. even
>though there happens to be a bootable partition on the 2nd. h/d ? Is
>there no way you could boot from it, without having to make some hardware
>changes ?

Depends on how you plan ahead. Let's say you were running LVM and you had
the foresight to put BM on the 2nd drive, then as long as the partition
was bootable with the 1st drive being present, it would boot without
problem. Without LVM, this would all be much more difficult and perhaps
not possible.

Steven

--
---------------------------------------------------------------------
"Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.31a #10183 Warp4/FP15/14.085_W4
www.scoug.com irc.webbnet.org #scoug (Wed 7pm PST)
---------------------------------------------------------------------

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 22 | February | 2002 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.