Re: OT: hard drive limits Q

On 2006-12-23, Robert Baer <robertbaer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jan Panteltje wrote:

1) I *never* mentioned Linux; i doubt that anything done withLinux
would allow the HD to boot.

Not unless there's a way to get the system bios to detect the drive.

so far you've only said that it wont boot, does the bios detect the drive
correctly?

Once linux has booted it should be fine.

Bye.
Jasen
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