Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-07 Thread wb2oyc
I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the geometry will render it unable to access the

Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-07 Thread claydona
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, wb2oyc wrote: I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the

Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, wb2oyc wrote: I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the

Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-06 Thread Dan Hugo
I had a bad 3.2G hard drive that was flaking on me, and it did so for what I called the last time Monday at about 3am... what better time to upgrade to a much more recent Debian version AND a new hard drive at the same time? I had a 4.0G drive waiting to take its place, so why not? So everything

Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Dan Hugo wrote: Apparently, I had forgotten to change the BIOS setting back to AUTO for the IDE drive probing, which I had set up when I first found that 3.2G drive to be flaky. Ugh! #includestdisclaim.h I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and