Hi,
Would it not be a lot better (easier) to have a separate small /boot ot
20MB as a primary partition and install LILO to that... Given now that
LILO can be installed to an extended partition itself, I don't think even
that has to be done...
As for the BIOS upgradations, I've already had a pretty bad experience
with AMI. Mailed them with my BIOS version etc and asked them if they had
an upgrade with support for
1. Booting off CDROM.
2. Large Disks.
The morons there gave me a link which I promptly downloaded and
"upgraded". It was in fact a "downgrade" and my BIOS version became even
more outdated... Luckily I had saved my previous BIOS to a file (option in
the upgrade executable), or my m/c would have been pre-historic by now...
Anyways thanks for the links - will try it out again when I have the
courage...
Regards,
Narain.
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
solution :
1. find a small hdd, supported by your bios from a junkyard;
make it the first one, write lilo to this, and play off;
2. find a way to upgrade the mobo bios, check out with
motherboards.org or at tomshardware.com. if your bios
can be flashed to a later version, which would support
LBA, that would save you from all these headaches.
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