On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Jesse Royall wrote:
> Jan:
> Thanks for the info.. that is what I thought it was. Funny thing though..
> I have no problem with it.
> I installed a 20gig and the let bios see 8 gig drive.
> loaded the WD driver so that it would see a full 20. partitioned it in 5
> gig parts (since windows 98 will not let me scandisk/defrag more than 6
> or 8 gigs and then create its own errors and ruin a perfectly good hard
> drive.). Installed windows 98 with a 4 gig as a slave. Then some silly
> person talked my into Linux (which I am still working on). Installed Lilo
> dual boot thingy. and Linux on the spare 4 gig. when my system boots it
> loads the EZ thingy where I can press C or A to boot from which I let it
> do its thing. then Lilo takes over and does it thing booting randomly
> windows 98 or Linux. hehe.. jking. but it all works for me somehow. with
> no problems. the only problem I had was I was getting a Lilo prompt and
> didn't know where to go from there until I reloaded windows a few times
> and linux a few times and I got a message one time telling me to hit tab
> to get a menu.
>
> Jess
>From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt
"
- to use LILO with EZ, install LILO on the linux partition
rather than on the master boot record, and then mark the
linux partition as "bootable" or "active" using fdisk.
(courtesy of Juha Laiho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>).
"
Which explains why Jess has no problems,
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:56:02 -0400 "Jan Herbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> > EZ Drive is a Formatting tool that is available on WD (western
> > didital)
> > website. Allows older Bios too see large drives. I think larger than
> > 6 or 8
> > GIGs.
> > Hope this helps
> > janh
>
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