-=> 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... <G>  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.... 

ttyl         neb

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