Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the geometry will render it unable to access the disk. You probably will see the dreaded LI when you try. Paul
Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, wb2oyc wrote: I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the geometry will render it unable to access the disk. You probably will see the dreaded LI when you try. is this worse than the dreaded LIL ? angus claydon
Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, wb2oyc wrote: I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the geometry will render it unable to access the disk. You probably will see the dreaded LI when you try. In that case, re-running LILO should make it work with the new geometry. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
I had a bad 3.2G hard drive that was flaking on me, and it did so for what I called the last time Monday at about 3am... what better time to upgrade to a much more recent Debian version AND a new hard drive at the same time? I had a 4.0G drive waiting to take its place, so why not? So everything installed fresh, everything is fine, and now I am looking at my partition total sizes a week later, and realizing that they add up to 3.2G! Apparently, I had forgotten to change the BIOS setting back to AUTO for the IDE drive probing, which I had set up when I first found that 3.2G drive to be flaky. Ugh! The question is, what is the best way to remedy this situation? I have a general idea, but I would really appreciate it if someone had any suggestions, like don't do this... or it will go very smoothly if you... All of the critical stuff is off that flaky drive and on the new one, and that flaky one is acting okay, but I don't really want to use it as a temp drive... hmmm. thanks a lot Dan Hugo .8G short...
Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Dan Hugo wrote: Apparently, I had forgotten to change the BIOS setting back to AUTO for the IDE drive probing, which I had set up when I first found that 3.2G drive to be flaky. Ugh! #includestdisclaim.h I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
