Hi, thanks for all, who gave me advice/ideas what to do!
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lars Knudsen wrote: > Have you tried putting the disk on the secondary ide interface and > disabling > the secondary ide interface in the bios ? I know it sounds like a stupid > thing > to do, but linux does not use the bios very much and disabling the ide > interface might bypass the disk check that the BIOS seem to perform even > when > told not to, while there is still a chance that Linux can see the disk. Actually this worked anyway. I put the Big One as hdc and disabled the secondary ide interface in the bios. I set the bios for secondary interface as 'manual' and ignored completely the geometry of the disk. 1) Now while booting debian finds the disk. 2) I used 'resc' and 'root' disks to start installation process to get into 'initialising a harddisk'. Is there any other tool available to do this? 3) Now the only possibility to use cdrom seems to be that it must be connected as 'hdd'. If I put it as hdb, the system hangs while booting... Maybe I have to change bios for that as well? Anyway my cd seems to be working with the Big One on the same secondary interface. 4) If I want to mount my Big One automatically while booting the box, how to do that? > > Happy hacking, > > \Gandalf -hv