On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Wesley Parish wrote:
> I am attempting to revive an old 1994-era PC for use with an semi-official
> selinux distro based on RedHat 7.x.
>
> The BIOS won't recognize the (second-hand) 10 GB drive I'm hoping is still
> usable, for obvious reasons. Does anyone know how to "deceive" the BIOS so
> it reads the hard drive?
A little trial and error should fix the problem. If you can get the bios
to see the HDD as say a 500 MB drive then you can get the kernel loaded.
Once Linux is running it by-passes the bios and sees the drive as it
actually is, 10 gig.
Phil.
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