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   -=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 08-May-2019 03:50 <=-   
      
    NB>> Richard got around that by partitioning the drive into segments   
    NB>> that DOS could handle.... of course, this pentium's drive is   
    NB>> less than 1G... ;)   
      
    MK> Yes but that only takes care of the DOS limitation and not the bios's.   
    MK> In the case of the 486 the bios couldn't handle drive sizes bigger   
    MK> than 520M so I had to lie about the geometry to the bios in order for   
    MK> it to get past the bios to the boot loader in order to boot whatever.    
      
   Not sure but what that might also be the case here... I just checked,   
   and the largest "drive" is under 520M, about 490M to be a little more   
   precise... that's the one designated c:\   
      
    MK> However the only one that could boot successfully was lilo installed   
    MK> on the root partition (not the mbr) so that the kernel could correct   
    MK> the obviously 'haked' geometry and therefore utilize the entire drive   
    MK> no matter how it was then partitioned.    
      
   Okay... you're speaking Wizard here.... and mine isn't around at the   
   moment to translate...   I do have a rough Idea what you are saying,   
   though.... ;)   
      
    MK> Also no bios upgrades back then.  The only upgrade possible at that   
    MK> time was to solder on a whole new chip which is something I wasn't   
    MK> about to do.  Anyhow I retired that computer not too long afterwards   
    MK> since it lacked any 32 bit pci slots which was the only sensible way   
    MK> to upgrade a pc with whatever looked to be attractive at the time,   
    MK> mostly network cards at that time.    
      
   I'd guess that my requirements for a computer are a lot simpler than   
   yours are.... ;)   
      
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