On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:37 am, Arie de Waart wrote:
Hello,
I have a i586(p166mmx,192 mb ram),mandrake 9.0 and a 40 GB harddisk. My
motherboard regnizes harddisk up to 8,4 GB. So i have to use the alternate
jumpersettings.
Does Mandrake 9.0 recognize this or have i buy a new ide-controller??
The motherboard BIOS is limited in what it can recognize
You need to put all bootable op systems with at least one partition in that
8.4G limit, and if you have a linux /boot partition in there, make it a
primary lest Windows lose track of all its extended partitions (put all
winpartitions of the extended kind numerically before linux extended
partitions or windows will become _very_ confused)
But actually Dual-booting on this machine is a VERY bad idea. You use some
sort of BIOS extension software(loaded from the disk before regular boot) for
windows, and you don't for linux. I have seen this cause problems time and
again.
And if you eventually upgrade to a newer board, I recommend COPYING the data
to a non-WD disk, cause above udma2 WD is ... bad juju.
Civileme
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