[NMLUG] big disks

[michaelm at nnmcc.edu (Michael Maddex)]

Have you tried booting a newer kernel from disk?  I see that the current
version of Knoppix (3.6), which is Debian based, offers kernel 2.4.27
as standard and 2.6.7 as an option.

        http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12818

With the Knoppix system running, you'd have the usual disk utilities like
fdisk to check things out.

Hope this helps.

Aaron Birenboim said:
> Daniel Lark wrote:
>>>I don't think the bios is involved, doesn't linux operate the
>>>controller itself and ignore the bios completely?  I wonder
>>>if you've got an old controller or there's some other problem
>>>with the disk.
>>
>>
>> That's not entirely true. You can override the BIOS to an extent, but
>> not completely.
>>
>> It sounds like this is the case on Aaron's system. Take a look at:
>> http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB128-c.html. The answer seems
>> to be to add a newer ATA133 controller. It seems to be a problem with
>> ATA33/66/100 only being able to with LBA48 addressing.
>>
>> -dan
>>
>
> I may or may not have a hardware or bios limit on the disk
> size here.   I definately have a limit with the kernel.
> I am running debian stable on a dual 1GHz machine.
> The latest kernel for debian stable is 2.4.18.
> It appears that large IDE support STARTED with 2.4.19.
>
> Not wanting to get too far off the "stable" line, I tried
> to patch to 2.4.19.  It failed miserably.  Conflicts.
> Either debian's stable kernel is waaaaay patched up, or
> I goofed someplace.
>
> So... what can I do?   This is a production machine, and I'm
> a little afraid to tinker with it.
>
> What was that software that allows you to use SOME unstable
> packages on a stable debian system?  Should I use this
> to get a newer kernel?
>
> or...  can I switch over to the unstable distro totally?
>
> Also...  I have some more machines to build in the near future...
> which debian image should I get as a starting poing for "unstable".
> I'm currently using some flavor of "woody".  Is there something
> else I should use for "stable" systems?
> Woody is circa 2001, but it sure looks to me like this is
> the latest and greatest debian stable image.  I was assuming
> that "apt-get upgrade" just took me from circa 2001 stable to
> the current stable distro.
>
> I have some machines which are very conservative servers... stable.
> Some development/testing machines for which unstable might be a
> better choice (in order to get the latest and greatest software).
>
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