On Freitag, Juli 11, 2003, at 09:56 Uhr, Brad Erdman wrote:
Hi,
I am running into the exact same problem now, with the Inspiron 8500.
However, I am a little confused about the "No large Disk support". I think
this will not affect me as I just create 1 large partition anyway.
And exactly that is the problem. When creating a virtual hard disk rather than a virtual floppy disk, there appears to be a bug with fdisk (thus triggered during partitioning) that renders it incapable of creating > 8 Gigs partitions.
Also, has anyone tried adding a USB floppy and seeing if that fixes things?
Yes! Quote from an earlier post (July 5th):
I had a chance yesterday to try. I turned the test laptop off, connected a USB floppy drive, turned it back on and tried to boot off the unattended CD: this time, it mounted the floppy image just fine. No BIOS upgrade, no changing any settings :-)
Thus, I guess that the BIOS does have (generic) floppy drivers, but only enables them when a floppy drive - internal or external - is actually present. I couldn't find an option to force-load those drivers.
Just plugging the floppy in to each of those laptops would work for me, though.
The drive used was an Imation SuperDisk USB drive (those failed 120 Megs floppies in the late 90's).
I suppose that any kind of USB floppy drive would work, though.
Good luck!
-- Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau <http://www.chucker.rasdi.net/>
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