Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> > 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).
>
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Sorry I missed the earlier part of the thread. If these are SCSI disks
(you ARE using a SCSI card to get the bios message?) have you tried
Ctrl-A to check your SCSI setup for misconfiguration, e.g. not set to be
bootable, etc?
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Andrew Mathews
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