The 6GB worked perfectly, so it must have something to do with the drive size, or maybe something like LILO's old 1024 cyinder limitation...
I'm starting to think this is an LBA issue...
When I boot, there is a black screen that the BIOS puts up, that lists the hardware... On the part that lists the HD, it says LBA is turned off, even though I have it set to "auto" in the BIOS... The BIOS mentions that it will use LBA if the HD supports it *AND* if the drive is formatted with LBA enabled... (?)
If I boot a set of debian floppies (RC1) the HD doesn't even show up... If I use the RC1 CD, it does...
I'm tempted to try this:
boot: linux hda=XXX,YYY,ZZZ
My disk, as reported by "fdisk -l":
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 194 97744+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 195 1163 488376 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1164 155061 77564592 83 Linux
More info:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2.shtml
Mike (Xyzzy)