Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:51:35 +0100
From: David Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CT50 and 20G drives
>Aha - i'm planning on putting it as a mixed boot 95 (or 98) and linux, so I
>can put lilo on from the desktop and work from there...
I also have a 50CT with a 20GN (well, a 20Gb IBM drive which fits, so
I assume it's the same model).
I had no trouble in installing and fdisk'ing, formatting the drive
etc. What I did was _not_ put it in a desktop, but instead used a DOS
boot floppy and ran fdisk in there to fdisk the first 8Gb (and you
don't have to leave a space at the end for the hibernation, as the
bios has hidden it from DOS), and then use a Linux boot floppy (ouch,
don't ask right now, I'm working on fixing it for the 2.4 kernel I am
using now) and fdisk the rest of the drive. Of course, make a ~40Mb
partition between the two for the hibernation data.
Once LILO was installed, everything was fine and happy (although this
is a single-boot Linux machine not a dual boot). One problem you
might have is that the kernel for LILO will have to be within the
first part of the disk (under 8Gb, maybe less), otherwise the BIOS
calls which LILO makes won't work to load the kernel.
>Hibernate isn't happy, either...writes at the expected speed but reads very
>slowly and crashes when it transfers control back.
Hibernate is also ok for me, having used the above method. I'd guess
that it is reading very slowly because it is not finding the data it
is expecting - ie. disk is partitioned to use the hibernation area as
usable disk space. I'd have thought that this is because partitioning
in a desktop machine would _not_ hide the necessary part of the disk
from DOS and so ensure that the space is available for hibernation.
>The bios is 6.4 - I think I'll try an upgrade to 6.5 and see what happens...
I haven't upgraded the bios on my 50, I was going to do that (maybe)
if things didn't work, but they seem fine, so the original bios should
be ok.
Dave
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