On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:48:48PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/02/2007 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > >I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so > >much when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB > >drive. The box used to have an 8 GB drive that died last year. > > > >This computer seems very picky over what drives it will actually boot. > >The origional 8 GB and the new 8GB drive are the same WD. The 1.1 GB is > >also a WD. Of the drives, it will only boot an 850 MB Quantum. > > > >I tried all the different geometry settings (NORMAL, LBA, LARGE) and > >reinstalled Etch and OpenBSD each time. No boots. Put in the 850 MB, > >install Etch, boots OK. > > > >Has anyone run into this before? My IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 will boot > >all of the drives no problem. > > > >As it is now, my 486 has the two WD drives so has lots of room for OBSD > >(since Etch won't install). > > > Beware of the 1024th-cylinder limit on machines like those. Create a > small (<512MB) /boot partition to contain the kernel and other files for > booting. > > If /boot doesn't work, try using Lilo rather than Grub. > > If Lilo fails, create a MSDOS partition at the head of the disk and > install syslinux onto it; see if you can get syslinux to boot the OS > (this might be moderately challenging, since syslinux is designed for > boot floppies). > > If syslinux fails, consider wiping the MBR and attempting the install > all over again. > > There are also some more exotic boot loaders available with Debian, chas > and palo. > > I wish you well on your adventures with old equipment :-)
I did a full wipe of the entire drive before trying. Note that the BSD bootloaders wouldn't work either. And yes, I used a 32 MB /boot partition for debian, and for OpenBSD I put the whole / (contains the kernel) in 500 MB. Note that there is no problem on my 486. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
