On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:38:34 -0600 "Larry W. Irwin Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am having a problem getting Lilo to work on my machine. I have a > motherboard with an old > 1996 bios that doesn't support hard disks larger than 8.4 gig. Maxtor's > MaxBlast disk manger > software provides an extension to the bios code to allow my 20 gig drive to > work. I have > tried to install Mandrake 8.1 several times always with the same result: > When I reboot, > LIL is printed to the screen then it hangs. > > When I first installed MaxBlast, I allowed it to partition the drive. When > I tried to install Linux > the disk partitioning software got confused and trashed the whole partition > table. I thought > that perhaps Linux didn't like the way MaxBlast created the partitions so I > used a Win98 > boot disk and fdisk to create the two Windows partitions. Tried to install > Linux again today > and still get the LIL thing. > What MaxBlast has done is install EZ-Drive (or Maxtors name for it) Lilo will not install properly with ez-drive installed. Using fdisk /MBR or even formatting the entire drive Will Not Remove ez-drive. It Must be uninstalled. Renun MaxBlast, in the Advanced setup or config there should be an option for uninstalling ez-drive. You can then install 8.1 which can see the whole drive without relying on the BIOS. Charles
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