Alex Samad wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:40:12AM +0000, AG wrote:
Kevin Ross wrote:
[snip]
I took the back completely off this evening and although the CD
drive now spins when a CD is inserted (there's progress), it doesn't
if its an ide interface, why not plug it into another hd instead of a
cdrom !
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Because the setting is not compatible with any housing/ receptor I've
ever seen before. It looks similar to an eSATA connection, but
smaller. I am assuming that it is non-standard, but to be fair haven't
taken that many laptops apart to say for sure.
I'm thinking that the way forward would be via the GRUB prompt I was
able to get off of an old floppy, but to do so would mean being able to
by-pass LILO and boot into the first partition on the HD (/), and then
go into LILO.conf and change it to accommodate the larger kernel or
dispense with LILO in favour of GRUB.
