Y.V.Deval saw fit to inform LIH that:
You do not need to reset the BIOS to default values. Most(ALL?) BIOSes
come with an "Auto detect IDE harddisks" option.
>I wanted to transferr data to a new bigger hard disk. After installing
>Linux with new disk as hda, I plugged in the old disk in place of
>cdrom,(hdc). Thinking that PNP bios will take care of everything, I just
>went ahead and got the bios setting muddled up. Got everything working
>after loading bios defaults.
-- Shanu
BTW: I noticed that you are using mozilla on a 486. Way to go man! :)
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