> 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.
One thing to note is that the kernel must be within the first 500MB, so generally you create / (or /boot) as the first partition on the disk (say 100MB if it is /, or 10-20MB if /boot), and then partition the rest how you like Andre
