* Charles E. Gelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000728 07:00]:
> Before you get to linux or DOS, what does your BIOS report
> about your hard drive(s)?
> Is your BIOS boot sequence A,C,... ?
Charles, thank you for your reply!
I'm using a Dell Latitude LM laptop (P133) which
came with an 800 Mb hdd, but I have since bought
a "Simple" (brand) 10 Gb hdd, which presented
me with problems when I tried to configure
it in a dual-boot Win95/Linux set-up. The Phoenix
NoteBIOS 4.0 doesn't tell me much. When I turn the machine
on, it mentions "Fixed Disk 0: HITACHI_DK229A-10"
and if I go into the BIOS config settings (F2 on my machine)
it states "Hard-Disk Drive C: 8455 Mb" and the only
parameter I can adjust is boot sequence, which is and has
been [DISKETTE FIRST].
> Are you physically swapping the drives? If yes, you must change
> your BIOS hard drive parameters!
I saw no way in which I might be able to change the hdd parameters,
am I missing something? I have already checked, and I don't think
Dell offers any BIOS upgrades for my PC. Probably the newer BIOSes
allow us to make the hdd parameter changes.
That said, I have already set up a working Win95 on the old 800 Mb hdd,
and I'm still happy with my 10 Gb drive with Linux. I'm sure I can only
access 8.4 Gb of it, however :-(
> Richard Spencer wrote:
> > So, to reiterate symptoms:
> > If my hda1 is type 6 (FAT16) because I created it with fdisk,
> > the DOS boot-disk won't boot; there is only some floppy drive
> > activity, and then some hard drive activity, and then nothing.
> > If I delete hda1, I can boot with my DOS boot-disk, and use DOS's
> > FDISK utility to create the partition instead. However, at this
> > point, I can't re-boot using the DOS boot-disk, to format the
> > new partition. Also, if I return to Linux fdisk, I notice the
> > partition which DOS FDISK created doesn't "end on a correct
> > cylinder" or something to that effect; forgive me for
> > not making a note of the error message!
> > So I wonder, is this problem arising because my new hard disk has
> > a different geometry? The old disk has 1575 cylinders, whereas the new
> > one has 19485 cylinders.
> > but I'd still prefer to have a dual-boot set-up on the larger hard drive.
> > btw, I run RedHat 6.0 and kernel 2.2.16, on the new hard drive, that is.
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