I just put an 8Gb hdd in my Hewlett Packard Vectra VL and I want to dual boot
Mandrake and Windows 98se (at least until GIMP can match Photoshop's CMYK
support).

The bios correctly recognizes my new hdd as being  8455Mb, 16383 cylinders,
16 heads and 63 tracks.
Unfortunately, the Win98 setup floppy won't boot an hdd with such a large
number of cylinder sizes. This is ironic, since Mandrake will load, detect
all my hardware (including USB) and configure it correctly right out of the
box.

Anyone know any bios tricks to fool Win98 into booting with this 8Gb drive?
It's a Phoenix bios, on an older  P-II-233, if that helps

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