On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:00:06PM -0400, Jeff Groves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > > >On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, David Rasch wrote: > > > > > > > >>I had good luck on one of my systems disabling the hard disk in the > >>bios (the bios only detected 138GB of 200GB). > >> > >> > > > >I've had to do this with all my old machines as the disks get larger than > >the BIOS can handle. The problem then is that you can't boot off the hard > >disk anymore. I solved this for Linux 2.4.x kernels by booting off a > >floppy, but you can't boot off a floppy with 2.6.x, so I guess these older > >machines will stay at 2.4.x > > > >Are there any other solutions? > > > >Joe > > > > > > > Installing an additional 10GB drive to boot off of :-\
You might be able to get around this by installing grub or lilo onto a floppy, but I have not tried this. David
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