Christopher Reimer wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >> I'm unclear what you mean by 40MB/20GB and 'Ontrack' - that sounds >> like a windoze driver ? I imagine it will take several days to build >> LFS on a P100, so I wouldn't look forward to it, but it should >> certainly be possible. > > > The laptop I have is so old that it will only recognize 16MB of a 20GB > hard drive. Ontrack Disk Manager is an overlay program between the BIOS > and the hard drive that makes it possible to see all 20GB. The newer > drive is lot faster than the 810MB drive that originally came with the > laptop. I'm using the laptop for LSF since I'm not using it for anything > else. Besides, I started using Linux on a Pentium 100MHz with 32MB back > in 1998.
You won't need Ontrack for any Linux system, since the Linux kernel drives the disk directly and not through the BIOS. It's the BIOS that doesn't recognise the disk, not the hardware. The big problem is that grub uses the BIOS to access the disk to load it's stage1_5, so you can't boot grub's stage1_5 if it isn't in the first ??? sectors (I can't rememeber the ???, 1024 perhaps). I had this problem with both a Fujitsu 133 Mhz Lifebook and a Fujitsu ErgoPro 200Mz box - the BIOS isn't upgradeable either. The solution is to have a separate /boot partition located in the first ??? sectors. I would suggest that you build using the SUSE system that you already have working. Booting a LiveCD without a CD booting BIOS is going to be fun ;-) Better still build the LFS on a fast machine and copy it somehow to the slow one - you will end up with more hair :-) Richard. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
