Hi David,
Thanks for your reply...That is the problem I am having, however, I do not think that the system is an "old one." This is precisely what I do not understand, since both motherboard and processor are, as far as I know, capable of reading large disks--the motherboard is an Intel D865GBF and the processor is also an Intel P-4.
A bit frustrating...but, thanks so much anyhow...
David Rasch wrote:
I've had a problem booting off large hard disks in older machines. I was unable to even load lilo off a 60GB drive (Same with grub) and had to install lilo on a smaller disk even though the root partition and kernel could all be on the larger disk. It seems to be some problem with the older bios booting off the large disk. NOt sure if this is your problem.
David
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 02:58:10PM -0400, William Villalba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear all,
I've been trying for the last 4 days to install linux on my system , but I am doing something that is preventing grub or lilo to be installed in the mbr. This is the situation: I have two hard drives, a 160 gb and a 80 gb. I used to have the 80 gb for data and the 160 gb for the operating systems--windows xp, gentoo, and suse. I decided to swap the 160 for data and the 80 for installing operating systems. I did the usual: installed windows then went ahead to install linux. Originally I planned to install SuSe 9.1--a network install, and after finishing, everything seemed to be okay, but grub did not work. I tried to fix grub by using the "rescue" option, invoking "grub", root (hd0,x), and setup (hd0), but didn't work. I tried then to install Mandrake, RedHat, Debian...with the same result. Of course, I checked the bios and changed some settings--from "Enhance" to "legacy", from "auto" to "user", and played around with different possibilities. No luck!
Does anyone know what could be the problem? I thought that this was a kernel 2.6 issue, but I guess not because I have tried installations with kernel 2.4, but does not work either. My system is a Pentium 4, with a Intel motherboard, a 80gb Maxtor drive and a Seagate 160 drive--both ide. A while ago I had a similar problem and how I solved it was by installing Linux first, then Windows and later using a knoppix cd to restore grub. However, I am not too sure this is the ideal solution, not to mention that this one have my head spinning...and I can't solve it. Any help I will greatly appreciate it.
william
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