>I would advice you to install it on some other machine and transfer the
HDD.
>
>Today I tried plugging my 10 GB HDD to my 486 since power suplly of my AMD
>machine is not working.
>
There are drivers for bypassing the bios limitation where LBA support is not
available - EZDrive, Disk Manager etc. take a look at
http://www.team3.net/comdrv/cmlx_hd.htm for details.
IMHO best option will be to partition the disk with first partition being
less than 1.2GB for booting. Once Linux is up and running you do not need
BIOS support.
>BIOS detected the HDD as 8GB but refused to boot. Couldn't pass beyond BIOS
>test which said 'Wait...' forever after detecting the HDD..
>
>Any solutions...
>
> Shridhar
>
>On Wednesday 21 March 2001 21:10, Manish Kathuria wrote:
>> You need to check if your motherboard can support a 20 GB HDD. If I
>> remember correctly, motherboards of that vintage didn't support HDDs
>> greater than 2 GB, while some of them could support 8 upto GB. Which
>> chipset is the motherboard based on ? model no ? make ? (Vintron just
>> imports them and markets them under its own brand). Check if the BIOS
>> can be updated.
>
>
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