I have an old 386 desktop that someone gave me. Apparantly, the original
owner had someone "upgrade" the computer. From what I can tell they
replaced the hard drive, and the bios does not support the drive
parameters. I pulled the drive and installed it in my regular box that
has a bios "Autodetect" feature.
The drive does not list anything on it, other than it is a Seagate,
and some manufacturers numbers. The problem is the bios only has 48
standard parameters, and two to set for custom. When I type in the
parameters, it automatically configures the size of the drive, which is
incorrect.
If i boot Linux from a floppy, is there a way i can a) bypass the
bios, or b) access the drive to make it bootable? I was figuring on bare
.i vmlinuz , and fdisk , on floppies.
I have to replace a fuse on the M/B but wanted to get some input as
to whether my scheme will work, or if I have a new doorstop.
thanks
Peter
