David Drummond wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> So how did you set the BIOS,  since it wouldn't recognized the full 
 RJT> drive?

 DD> I let the BIOS auto-determine the drive size (it thought it was 
 DD> 62Gb). 

Was that LBA mode,  or something else?

 DD> I made a smallish (2Gb) partition and installed Linux. Once 
 DD> installed and booted I simply used fdisk to partition the rest of
 DD> the drive. Linux doesn't usually use the BIOS to access the drives.

Right.  I figured it was something of that sort,  but wanted to know how
you went about it.

 DD> When I updated the BIOS and got it booting again (had to re-run 
 DD> liloconfig), I re-started at the beginning and made one big 
 DD> partiton (and the swap partition).

Did you put swap anyplace in particular?  At the beginning?  The end?

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