Try using the 'potato' boot disks. These recognise a greater than 8MB disk. I am using a Dell Latitude with a 12MB hard drive and cfdisk on the potato boot disks recognises the drive correctly, even the existing ntfs partition was detected correctly.
Hope this helps.. Johnny. Martyn Pearce wrote: > Kero van Gelder writes: > | > I've got my first notebook a Dell Inspiron 5000. For all I've read, > | > I thought this one would work with Linux. But: > | > First thing, Linux complains about the harddisk which was preinstalled > | > with WIN98 (sorry for the words...). It has 12GB. After killing all > | > partitions under DOS, formatting and the mbr, Linux pretends to see a > | > 7,7GB harddisk. > | > Is this a known bug with some controllers ? Is there a driver to fix it ? > | > Any other ideas ? > | > | ``Linux says''... > | fdisk? disk druid? other partitioning programs? > | > | 12GB is quite big (==new? ==unsupported?) for a LapTop drive. I have > | no idea what it could be. > > I have a I7K, potato-ized. I have a 14Gb drive thereon, it works fine. > What geometry mode have you set? LBA? CHS? "Big"? What does fdisk -l > report as the disk geometry? Mine says 240H, 63S, 1826C. > > Mx. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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