PE> Anyway, Linux is also installed on a partition below the 500
PE> meg limit, and it is now booting cleanly, via boot manager.

RS> Which seems to indicate that the AMI bios LBA support cant be too fucked.

No, I'm not using LBA for that 4th drive (otherwise boot manager doesn't
recognize it).

PE> Now I'm on to the next problem with Linux - why does it recognize
PE> my CDROM if I boot via floppy, but not when I boot via hard disk?!

RS> I basically gave up on it, dinosaur technology at that level.

I got there in the end.  It was to do with the kernel not having SB
support.  I am quite surprised that SB support is in the kernel instead of
as a separate device driver???!!!  BFN.  Paul. 
@EOT:

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