Grant Parnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 22 Nov 2001, Damien Elmes wrote: > > > > > Jeffrey Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > couldn't you just make it smaller in the bios and go and install linux on > > > it anyway > > > > > > like my laptop 12gb disk windoze only see's 8gb and it's only in the 1st > > > 2gb only anyway. Linux on the rest works fine. Linux dosen't care about > > > broken bios'es! Heck it dosen't even use it! > > > > my bios would freeze on POST with a 40gb drive until i upgraded it. > > fortunately i didn't need to increase the size of the chip in order to > > fit the updated version. > > Just as an excercise I'd like to find out if manually setting the BIOS in > advance to a non auto detect setting would fix this problem. If the > original poster could at least try this before doing the flash upgrade I'd > be pleased to hear from them but generally speaking an upgraded BIOS would > be nicer. pretty sure i tried that, no luck. but it was about a year ago, so don't trust me on that. :-) cheers! -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
