Install on large Hard drive (resolved)

[Tom Mitchell]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:29:27AM -0800, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:54:48PM +0000, obarlow at netzero.net wrote:
> 
> > I'm attempting to install fedora core 1 on my system.  It doesn't
> > recognize the full size of my 120G hard drive.  Other linux
> > distributions are able to recognize it.  Is there a module I need to
> > load for fedora to recognize the full hard drive?
> 
> I suspect that the BIOS does not present the full drive
> to the system at boot time.  
> 
> Once the install disk had booted you should be able to partion the
> disk and use it all.  Automatic partioning should work but I made mine
> by hand the way I did because I was lazy.
> 
> Since your BIOS apparently does not see all the disk make your FIRST
> partion "/boot" and things should be fine.
> 
> Something like this:
>   $ df
>   Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>   /dev/hda3            111250496  54009080  51590152  52% /
>   /dev/hda1               101089     28767     67103  31% /boot
> 
>   $ grep swap /etc/fstab
>   /dev/hda2               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> 
> I made my /boot filesystem partion with a size of 1GB on this 120GB
> disk.  I now have five kernel versions in it so I suspect it was a
> little bigger than it needed to be.

In an off line communication this was a disk jumper (hardware) issue.
I guess I need to add check jumpers in with my check BIOS setting 
advice.

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