[TriLUG] Any problems with a 160 GB IDE disk?

[Matthew Lavigne]

put grub on the floppy with no kernel?



On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 04:29:06 -0700 (PDT), Joseph Mack NA3T
<jmack at wm7d.net> 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
> 
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