[ale] 486/8 meg memory as a gateway?

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A. Knapka)]

Dan Newcombe wrote:
> 
> Funny thing is the notebook doesn't recognize the hard drive correctly
> thanks to a crappy bios - but if I boot off a floppy with Linux, it has no
> problem then.

Linux does all its own hardware detection, not depending on the BIOS for
much of anything. The only thing it has to be able to get from the
BIOS is enough data about drive geometry to load the kernel, and if
you boot from a floppy, it doesn't even need the HD geometry.

-- Joe Knapka
--
To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.