Re: Boot Drives for older Systems

From	Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Boot Drives for older Systems
Date	2017-05-02 20:50 +0200
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Le 02/05/2017 à 19:13, Martin McCormick a écrit :
> This drive will be booting Debian so my question is not totally
> off-topic. Some older P.C. BIOS programs will not boot any drive
> over 32GB. Can you get a larger drive, partition it with a 32 GB
> boot partition and expect it to work that way with the remainder
> of the drive available for more space such as /home?

If I remember correctly, some old BIOS completely hang when detecting a 
drive bigger than 32 GiB. So such a disk cannot be used for booting with 
such a BIOS, unless it has a 32-GiB clip jumper or its HPA (host 
protected area) is set to less than 32 GiB.

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Boot Drives for older Systems "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-05-02 19:20 +0200
  Re: Boot Drives for older Systems Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-05-02 19:30 +0200
  Re: Boot Drives for older Systems Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-02 20:50 +0200

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