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Originally posted by e0n
Maybe i'm doing something wrong here.. But how could an OS even use all of my drive's space if my BIOS detects only a small fraction of it?
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Because linux doesn't really depend that much on the BIOS.
Try this:
Create a small (10-15mb) /boot partition at the start of the drive you'll be using for the OS.
Allocate your other partitions and see what happens. You may need to reboot for the partition table to take. I've often used the first Mandrake 9.1 disk to partition drives on cranky BIOS, partly because I'm lazy - but often because it succeeds where Slack is painful.
Get the one drive working (and space detected) then adding the other should be eas(y/ier)
Haven't used Gentoo myself, but this works with Slack, Mandrake and Debian on older hardware with big (80GB +) disks.