[newbie] Linux and Disk Managers

2002-01-14 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
Hi, I am having a problem getting Lilo to work on my machine. I have a motherboard with an old 1996 bios that doesn't support hard disks larger than 8.4 gig. Maxtor's MaxBlast disk manger software provides an extension to the bios code to allow my 20 gig drive to work. I have tried to

Re: [newbie] Linux and Disk Managers

2002-01-14 Thread Onur Kucuk
LWIS Hi, LWIS I am having a problem getting Lilo to work on my machine. I have a LWIS motherboard with an old LWIS 1996 bios that doesn't support hard disks larger than 8.4 gig. Maxtor's LWIS MaxBlast disk manger LWIS software provides an extension to the bios code to allow my 20 gig drive

Re: [newbie] Linux and Disk Managers

2002-01-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:38:34 -0600 Larry W. Irwin Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having a problem getting Lilo to work on my machine. I have a motherboard with an old 1996 bios that doesn't support hard disks larger than 8.4 gig. Maxtor's MaxBlast disk manger software provides

Re: [newbie] Linux and Disk Managers

2002-01-14 Thread Oliver L.Plaine Jr
On Monday 14 January 2002 11:38, Larry typed: clipped When I first installed MaxBlast, I allowed it to partition the drive. When I tried to install Linux the disk partitioning software got confused and trashed the whole partition table. I thought that perhaps Linux didn't like the way