Richard Fish wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:
I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a
Dell Optiplex. I've installed a new harddrive (b/c I took the factory
one for another gentoo box), run through the x86 install, built a
kernel and installed grub. The box refuses to boot from the hard
drive. In fact, in the BIOS setup, it refuses to let me specify the
hard drive as a boot option. Anyone have any idea why?
Is there a BIOS update available? Grab the update and put it on a floppy/CD, and
flash your BIOS to the latest version. You might have a bug in your BIOS. One of
my motherboards' BIOSes didn't support hard drives >32 GB, but the patch
included an error in autodectection, causing my 60 GB hard drive to appear as 2.1
GB in the BIOS when set to LBA mode. Gentoo didn't have any problems with it,
even without hdx=stroke, so I think that was just a display error. But the update
was well worth it, anyway.
A more obscure BIOS tactic common back in the day was to put all or part of it in a
hidden area on the primary master hard drive. This might be your issue, except I think
this was only Compaq 486/Pentium systems. Name-brand computers always have some
proprietary "feature" to keep us power users away (like warranties, or older
Dells' nonstandard power supplies).
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Colin
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