* Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 15:42]: > On 10/02/2007 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Hello all, >> I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so much >> when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB drive. The >> box used to have an 8 GB drive that died last year. >> This computer seems very picky over what drives it will actually boot. The >> origional 8 GB and the new 8GB drive are the same WD. The 1.1 GB is also >> a WD. Of the drives, it will only boot an 850 MB Quantum. >> I tried all the different geometry settings (NORMAL, LBA, LARGE) and >> reinstalled Etch and OpenBSD each time. No boots. Put in the 850 MB, >> install Etch, boots OK. >> Has anyone run into this before? My IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 will boot all >> of the drives no problem. >> As it is now, my 486 has the two WD drives so has lots of room for OBSD >> (since Etch won't install). >> Doug.
I have running here a PII with Asus P2B-F motherboard and a 40Gbyte IDE drive. The manual for the P2B-F is rather poor, and fails to provide a number of vital details. I have been running a dual-boot Debian/W2000 scheme, with Debian "testing" on one drive and W2000 on the other, and using GRUB as the boot loader. With a 366 MHz process, performance with W2000 and with the Gnome desktop is acceptable, but sometimes a bit frustrating. In order to get the system to boot, I found it necessary to install the 32Gbyte clip jumper on any drive larger than 32Gbyte. Once the system boots, W2000 thinks it is running on a 32Gbyte drive. However, Debian sees the entire drive, despite the clip jumper. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
