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Way way back, there were hard disk size limitations that were really only software limitations rather than hardware limitations. So there were tools that could
by Dwedit 1y ago
Way way back, there were hard disk size limitations that were really only software limitations rather than hardware limitations. So there were tools that could install themselves to the boot sector of the drive, and provide support for larger hard disks by replacing the BIOS's disk access functions.
There's the 504MB or 2GB limit that was removed by using EZ-Drive, and the 8GB limit that was removed by using EZ-BIOS.
- ahartmetz 1y agoI managed to boot Linux from a multi-GB drive in a Siemens 486, years after the 486 era. There was a BIOS update to IIRC fully support somewhat (several times) larger disks than the original version and at least not choke on even larger ones. It allowed to boot Linux from a low position on the disk, and Linux had no trouble at all using the full size of the disk.