From: bknight AT iolinc DOT net (Higginbotham, Jamie) To: Subject: RE: DISK Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:59:21 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0002_01C106E4.A3A51620" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <004101c106f3$86f09d60$80de4c18@cr140962a> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C106E4.A3A51620 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit as much as openbsd and linux share in common, I'd bet if you made your boot partition under the 400+mb limit everything would boot fine... and this would go for a boot manager as well... the bootable code has to be within the limits of the hardware for it to be bypassed (for lack of better words)... jamie -----Original Message----- From: Fergus Hayman [mailto:fhayman6767 AT home DOT com] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:46 AM To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: DISK Hi I've recently installed DRDOS on a 486 laptop 8 megs ram. The Harddrive is about 380megs. I have a 6 gig drive but the bios only recognizes about 472 megs under dos . I Installed the latest AST Powerexec bios update i could find . Is there a way to get around this limitation , with a boot partition or something. I tried an FTP of OpenBSD on the larger drive .( IT recognized the 6 gig drive)and it wouldn't boot past the set tty screen. I figured it might be looking for some of the data outside the bios boundry. I might try it again using a 450meg Openbsd partition to see if it will boot. The laptop of course has no cdrom . The 3com pcmcia card i have works well from the openbsd boot disk. I scanned the DRDOS network drivers and didn't see anything for pcmcia cards. Win3.11 dosn't appear to have anything for this card either--- 32bit . Regards Fergus ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C106E4.A3A51620 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
as=20 much as openbsd and linux share in common, I'd bet if you made your boot = partition under the 400+mb limit everything would boot fine...  and = this=20 would go for a boot manager as well...  the bootable code has to be = within=20 the limits of the hardware for it to be bypassed (for lack of better = words)...=20
 
jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: Fergus Hayman=20 [mailto:fhayman6767 AT home DOT com]
Sent: Saturday, July 07, = 2001 10:46=20 AM
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:=20 DISK

Hi
 
    I've recently = installed=20 DRDOS on a 486 laptop 8 megs ram.   The Harddrive is about = 380megs.    I have a 6 gig drive but the bios only = recognizes=20 about 472 megs under dos .  I  Installed the latest = AST =20 Powerexec bios update i could find .  Is there a way to = get around=20 this limitation , with a boot partition or something.  = I tried=20  an FTP of OpenBSD  on the larger drive .( IT recognized = the 6 gig=20 drive)and it wouldn't boot past the set tty screen. I figured = it might=20 be looking for some of the data  outside the bios = boundry.  I=20 might try it again using a 450meg Openbsd partition to see if = it will=20 boot.          =20
 
The laptop of course has no cdrom . = The 3com=20 pcmcia card i have works well from the openbsd boot = disk.   I=20 scanned the DRDOS network drivers and didn't see anything for pcmcia = cards.=20 Win3.11 dosn't appear to have anything for this card either--- 32bit = .
 
          &nbs= p;=20 = Regards           =   =20 Fergus
 
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