On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:33:15PM -0800, Ryan wrote: > On this machine the drive comes up right away as having 32MB. It's an old > motherboard, 1995 or so and even after I specified in the BIOS the number of > heads and cylinders there is another option in the BIOS that says Max Size: 8GB > So when I went and did an fdisk/mkfs, the size of the drive is 32GB. Everything > works fine, I just want my 10 extra gigs. So I should be able to get around the > BIOS issue in linux? [...] > > - So have you tried booting Linux on that machine? > > - Does the BIOS hang when you try to detect the drive size, or just > > mis-report the drive size?
So this is getting confusing, you have not said how big the drive really is... from what I gather you think it is 42 Gig. I'm not sure if you answered my first question about if you had tried booting that drive in Linux. It's unclear but I think you say you did boot in Linux. Can you do the following: ---- Boot the machine into Linux Mail the output from the following commands: === uname -a dmesg | grep ^hd cat /proc/partitions cat /proc/ide/hd*/[cg]*y for x in a b c d; do hdparm -i /dev/hd$x; done for x in a b c d; do fdisk -l /dev/hd$x; done === --- If you have problems with any of those commands mail the output you can and error messages you get for the rest. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech