> Just putting my 2 cents worth on the first point. You realise that even
> if the ide hard drives that are purchased have more than 1024 cyls you
> can reduce this amount by halving cyls and doubling heads, the inbuilt
> ide controller on the hard drive will handle the remapping of logical
> sectors to physical sectors. Doing this in the BIOS will keep the size
> of your drive on actual size, but fool lilo into thinking that the drive
> has less than 1024 cyls, when in fact it has more.
The BIOS hangs on my Intel Panther board. This is quite common on older
486 boards. Indeed you'll see many earlier disks came with "lie to the bios"
jumpers so that they could include some nasty disk mangler thing to try and
fake it up later.
Its not uncommon on older 486's. Workarounds for Linux include floppy booting
and having the bios set to no IDE disk (also a good way to get scsi disks as
the boot media btw)
Alan
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