Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
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

Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-07 Thread claydona
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

Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-07 Thread wb2oyc
> >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

Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
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! #include I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk

Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-06 Thread Dan Hugo
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