On Saturday 15 October 2005 06:03, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Actually, I've tried using old klunkers to do backups, and discovered > > that they can't take large hard disks. One of mine won't go beyond > > about 128 gig, tha other gets stuck somewhere between 2.5G and 80 G. > > I don't know if it will work for all old machines, but when I ran into that > problem I turned off the backup disk in the BIOS, letting linux find it > after booting from a smaller disk.
That works for me as well. If the BIOS detects the large backup disk in my server the machine wont post. Once it's turned off in the BIOS Linux boots just fine and detects it perfectly. It's been like that for years. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
