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Lilo has to be told that you are using an eide drive.

Mark it as linear drive (just like a scsi) and it should work.

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:40:11 GMT, unixguy@arizonaed.com wrote:

>Cannot boot the system from either the 10g hd nor the A: drive to
>linux.  The system is *not* a multiboot.
>
>I removed the scsi card--still no luck.
>
>The pc thinks the drive is 8gig.  The f'ing pc is a compaq.  The bios on
>compaq's are ON THE HARD DRIVE!  Since my old hd crashed, I can't access
>the bios!  Argh!
>
>Furthermore, figuring out what type of "deskpro" this system is, is
>IMPOSSIBLE.  The compaq site has over four dozen different deskpro's.  I
>don't know if this is considered a business model, a personal model, a
>professional model... who knows.  And I need that info to get the rompaq
>to reinstall the bios on the new hd.
>
>HELP!
>
>-Ed.
>
>
>In article <38556438.DC00E596@gmx.net>,
>  Tamer Higazi <t-higazi@gmx.net> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> Perhaps i might help you. But perhaps! If you put the Disk inside, are
>you
>> able to start Linux? If yes you just enter LILO Boot Manager and let
>him
>> rewrite the Master Boot sector. So you won't have any Problems. If
>there is
>> no solve, you have to reinstall. Did you take a look on the Linux
>Manual?
>> Look if Linux support your harddisk or not.
>>
>> Tamer Higazi
>>
>> unixguy@arizonaed.com schrieb:
>>
>> >     I just got a large hd.  10g.  I install Redhat 6.0 just fine.
>No
>> >     problems.  See's the drive and all.  Now when I boot, the system
>> >     panics.  I just get "L 010101010101010...." across the screen.
>(The
>> >     whole screen files with 100101010101010.)
>> >
>> >       I have a compaq 166mhz machine that isn't able to use the
>ultra-
>> >     ata/66 but that's ok, western digital provides a util to change
>it
>> > to
>> >     33.
>> >
>> >       When I boot from a rescue disk, it starts to load and it
>panics.
>> >
>> >       /root partition is below 1024.
>> >
>> >       What am I doing wrong?  Any help would be appreciated!!
>> >
>> >     -Ed.
>> >
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