On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Alan Mead wrote:
<snip>
->When I install the drive the BIOS does not recognize it. If I make the
->BIOS recognize it, it gets recognized as hdc and the system won't boot
->(presumably the BIOS insists on booting the IDE).
*** That's true. Boot from your floppy (which you have handy don't
you!?), go to /etc/lilo.conf and add the geometry of your disk which you
took care of noting down before installing the drive.
Add to /etc/lilo.conf
disk=/dev/hdc
BIOS=0x81 --> see man lilo.conf for details!!
SECTORS=32
HEADS=64
CYLINDERS=1030
Extract from man:
disk=device-name
Defines non-standard parameters for the specified disk. See section "Disk
geometry" of user.tex for details. Especially useful is the `bios='
parameter. The BIOS numbers your disks 0x80, 0x81, etc. and it is
impossible to decide which Linux disk corresponds to which BIOS disk
(since this depends on the BIOS setup, and on the type of BIOS), so if you
have an unusual setup you need to state the correspondence between Linux
disks and BIOS disks. For example,
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda
bios=0x81
would say that your SCSI disk is the first BIOS disk, and your (primary
master) IDE disk is the second BIOS disk
Once lilo setup, run lilo -t to see if there're no problems and then
validate lilo.conf by running lilo.
<snip>
->However, I cannot get the WD to be recognized for all 13.6 GB. I tried
->many bios and jumper settings and all I ever get is 8.4 GB. I guess I need
->to get the BIOS to recognize all 13.6 in order to fdisk it, right? Any ideas?
*** Try to setup lilo, get the disk accepted and see what happens. I can't
tell you what will happen.
Cheers!
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