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

[Aaron S. Joyner]

David Rasch 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 suppose it depends on the failure mode of the BIOS.  If you can get it 
to go ahead and try to boot the boot loader, even if it thinks the disk 
is smaller than it actually is, you may be able to work around the 
problem.  On the other hand, if the BIOS fails less gracefully (i.e. 
hangs when attempting to access a drive that reports itself as too 
large, doesn't attempt to boot to what it sees as a bogus device, etc) - 
it may not work out so conveniently.

Aaron S. Joyner