-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 July 2003 10:45 am, Michael Dunham wrote: > Ryan said------------------------- > Mike, try installing with a small (20 oe 30 megs or so is what I use) > partition at the begining of the drive, and place /boot there. Your kernel > may be able to address the whole drive without any problems. A quick way to > tell if this will work is to try a boot disk (CD or floppy) and see if it > can > access the whole drive. > ----------------------------------------------- > > Actually, because the BIOS will not recognize the cylinder configuration, > it will not boot from that drive. The bios brings the machine to a full > stop when it tries to load the disk - no disk error, just a hard freeze. > That is why I am interested in these boards because they can be used as an > alternate boot. The only thing I don't know is if they will be properly > read after the boot without a Linux specific driver.
Perhapse you could define your hard drive geometry, instead of letting it try to auto-detect? Your 13GB drive probably has an 8GB cap jumper on it that you could try using. - -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` Also available at http://www.cal.net/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Eu8MEd9E83IXe8cRAquhAKCLG44GLktivmz6CiFETrk7TTJWvACfR56P w09PBPFLnAFH+CM4Q7dS3Dw= =9Wbv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
