Hi Fred, you used a program called "zap" I forget. I have it and
it allows you to load up to a 2 gb HD on an old bios computer. I know that
program puts data into a loader program in the boot sector of the HD. You
don't notice this when using DOS and old windows like version 3.1 but
win95 fights it.
With Linux I am not sure what happens. Do this: If you have lilo
doing your loading, back clear off and re-do your special big HD thing
again. Make sure it's right. Then re-load and boot from a floppy ONLY. Do
not use lilo cuzz it writes to the boot sector. But perhaps you can put
lilo on another partition.
These work-arounds because the dam computer is 4 years old are
just the pits!
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} Not a specific 2.2.4 problem. But since there are lots of 486-scroungers on
} this list, I thought that this hint might be helpful.... and reduce
} Aspirin consumption...;>/
}
} One of my old 486 has a Bios not made for disks larger than 540mb but it
} can still recognize and ident a 1gb disk and load its parms into the bios
} setup table. But when I load/run Linux with the 1gb disk , it slows down
} enormously and so becomes useless. Detailed reason why unclear to me. I
} thought Linux was BIOS independent more or less! I am sure there are
} workarounds to that problem, like ezdisk etc.
}
} Fred/K1HB
}
}
}
Best wishes
- Karl F. Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 524-3303 -
