That is why Linux-Mandrake developed GRUB, it does not have the problem with
1024 cylinders
Uhm...Linux-Mandrake didn't develop GRUB...it's a GNU program. Current
versions of LILO don't care abut 1024 cylinders either. All this presumes
that the BIOS is recent enough to deal with large
Joe,
See all of my earlier discussions on "shim" programs. A lot in the last
month, for some reason. Use shim programs ONLY if you MUST. Being that you
say your motherboard is only two years old I would expect it to support LBA
drives; are you ABSOLUTELY sure that you have to use the
A few months ago I bought a Maxtor Diamondmax 40
gig hard drive. I installed it with Windows 98 using the included Maxblast
Plus software floppy. The software included a BIOS overlay called EZ
BIOS. Everything installed correctly and gave me two 20 gig partitions
labeled D: and E: Whenever
well for one dos fdisk is limited your bios settings will tell it something
it cant comprehend, remember how we mention lilo only able to detect so many
cylanders well in this case dos has the same limitations, my mom had the same
problem she bought a 20 gig hard drive and for some reason her
DOS will not see anything past the 1028 cylinder limit--approximately 7.8GB
(sually rounded by DOS to 8GB). You do not need the "EZ-BIOS" app. to run
properly.
If you are only installing linux, then scrap the DOS utilities, and only use
the installer (I'm assuming Mandrake). Use "expert mode"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well for one dos fdisk is limited your bios settings will tell it something
it cant comprehend, remember how we mention lilo only able to detect so many
cylanders well in this case dos has the same limitations, my mom had the same
That is why Linux-Mandrake developed
Dennis Veatch wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well for one dos fdisk is limited your bios settings will tell it something
it cant comprehend, remember how we mention lilo only able to detect so many
cylanders well in this case dos has the same limitations, my mom had the same
That is
