How best to get an old BIOS to see the full size of a big

[Greg Brooks]

Well, the command (thanks, guys!) shows a sufficiently large disk (see
below). So it's simply a resizing issue?





# Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
# 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
# Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
# Disk identifier: 0x0f800000
#
#    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
# /dev/sdb1               1       30401   244196001   83  Linux
#
# Disk /dev/sdb1: 250.0 GB, 250056705024 bytes
# 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30400 cylinders
# Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
# Disk identifier: 0x00000000
#
# Disk /dev/sdb1 doesn't contain a valid partition table