Do you have a 2nd box to throw this harddrive into? That would make
this process infinitely easier to troubleshoot.
--- Condon Thomas A KPWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > this smacks of the 8gig limit. Is your motherboard cabable?
> > What boot manager
> > is causing bios to report an error? Is lilo the later version?
>
> I never get to the LILO loader -- the "Primary Master Hard Disk Fail"
> message comes first. This is just after the "Bios Successfully
> Installed"
> message. It occurs even when I'm booting from a floppy (which is the
> first
> boot device).
>
> > A quick check incidentally of discovering bios
> > incompatibilties is to install
> > windoze. The cmos CAN dsicover the real size of the drive,
> > but if the bios
> > cannot use ead, then windoze will limit that drive to 8gig no
> > matter what.
>
> Installing Windoz is the "quick" test? I've never found that to be
> less
> than a 4 hour job. Of course, the only M$ OS I have available is NT
> 4.0
> (workstation or server), and I scraped that off to run a decent OS
> some time
> ago. I'd prefer a simpler way to test it.
>
> Incidentally, it strikes me as counter-productive for Linux users to
> decry
> the nasty folks at M$ while expecting to find and use M$ and DOS tools
> to
> fix/run our systems. Hmm. Maybe we need more tools of our own.
>
> Last night's results:
> Linux fdisk does not have a /mbr option. I suspect that is dos. I
> couldn't
> find anything in man of fdisk on how to write the mbr, so in ran YaST2
> (since I'd booted SuSE with the floppy). In Yast I found where to
> write
> LILO to the MBR, and did so. Rebooting showed no change to the
> situation.
>
> I suspect you are right about the 8GB limit, so I'll look into that in
> toady's reading. Debugging the home system from tips I pick up in
> spare
> time at work is difficult.
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