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

[Brian McCullough]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:58:12PM -0400, Brian Henning wrote:
> > One instance in my experience is to the contrary.  My PII 400 system
> > will not load the boot loader off my 60GB drive.  It sits there and
> > dumbly refuses to do anything whatsoever :).  I've used both a smaller
> > drive, and a boot disk with grub to solve this issue.  Grub sees the
> > drive just fine, but the bios won't load the boot loader from the drive
> > (tried both grub and lilo).
> >
> > David
> 
> I am certainly no authority on this topic, and I hope I'm not insulting your
> intelligence by mentioning these two things that came to mind about a BIOS
> that won't load what ought to be a proper boot partition:

> I'd just be curious to know, if those things are all in line, what would
> cause a particular disk to simply not boot..  Did you ever fully figure it
> out?


I have to support David on this one.  I have also run into machines ( if
I remember a PII 400 ) that would not boot from a disk that was "too
big."  I put an old, smaller, drive into the machine, marked it as the
boot disk, and hey presto!

Once Linux is up, the big drive gives no problems.


Brian