> Been there done that. I had to put the Gateway HDD in a different machine
to format it with a windoze disk before the gateway would recognize it again. The other machine reconized it right away and actually booted right on to the Linux installation on the HDD that I had removed from the Gateway That was 2 different HDDs that worked fine in the gateway (1 Western Digital and 1 Maxtor) until I installed Linux after that the Gateway machine would not reconize eather of them until they were installed in an other machine and reformated using a winbloze disk. After reformating with a windoze disk the Gateway machine was again able to use them with no trouble at all. And as I said in the first bessage I had a old 500 MB HDD with windoze on it that the Gateway computer was able to recognize.
It seems to me like something has been done to the bios in the Gateway to make it NOT recognize any HDD with Linux installed on it. The MOBO was made by Intel but the Bios was customized with the Gateway logo so I really cant say Who is responsible for the bios problems intel or Gateway but due to the fact that Intel brand MOBOs are used in so many brands of computers if this was a Intel related problem I suspect that we all would have heard about it much sooner. As I said this machine is less than 3 months old so maybe as time passes we will hear more storys like this.
It seems like this almost had to be something done on purpose to the bios. If that Is the case I hope that the Linux community comes down on Gateway and, or Intel like a ton of bricks.
Marc
It wouldn't be Intel,
They support linux and in fact donated cash to the anti-SCO campaign... so I can't see them
making a windows only bios, unless of course gateway insisted upon it as part of the supply contract.
If they can get linux on an Xbox, I am sure that its possible to get it onto that gateway.. you just have to work out why its not
working now...
Can you make a linux boot floppy, boot from that and see if you can access the drive..
I don't think that the bios is "not detecting" the drive if its got linux, because it would have to map the drive params before
it could check to see what was on the drive anyway..
more likely that something else is going on.
-- rgds
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