Al salaam a'alaykum Maurice

27 Aug 03 15:14, Maurice Kinal wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> Of course the BIOS in the bloody machine didn't recognise anything
 DD>> bigger than 64G. Slackware 8 was quite happy to partition/format it
 DD>> all :-)

 MK> I forgot to ask, does it boot okay on it's own?

Yes it did.

 MK> The reason I ask is because a socket 7 I have couldn't directly boot 
 MK> the 40G drive, let alone be able to detect it properly, so I had to 
 MK> add a different boot device in order to bypass the bios detection and 
 MK> boot Linux.  I used a compactflash disk for that purpose, although a 
 MK> floppy boot should also work.  I had to make sure the 40G was turned 
 MK> off in the bios or it wouldn't even get to a bootup of anything.  
 MK> Worked fine after all that.  :-)

When I found a BIOS upgrade for the machine and flashed it in, the BIOS
then recognised the full size of the drive.

Of course, it wouldn't boot then :-(

Luckily I'd made a lilo diskette so I booted from that, ran liloconfig, and
averything was fine again.

(note: the machine is a small footprint PIII-450 Compaq.)

Regards,
David

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