Bero,
Just a heads up. I am running a linux system on a 13 gig IDE drive and
not having any problems. And I am running on a P200MMX... So I don't think
that bios limitation is a problem anymore unless you are not using LBA mode
in the system bios.
-Al
At 09:29 AM 7/18/1999 +0200, you wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I did an upgrade from RedHat 5.2 with a selfcompiled kernel 2.2.3 to
>> Mandrake 6.0 with kernel 2.2.9-19. I can start my system from the boot
>> floppy but trying to start it from the HD gives at once a "crc error"
>> and the system halts.
>
>I don't think it's a kernel problem (nobody else is having it). By any
>chance, are you using a disk > 8.4 GB, and is the kernel in the area > 8.4
>GB? That's not possible (BIOS limitation, not a Linux bug).
>
>LLaP
>bero
>
