Re: EZ-BIOS fuer WD harddisk

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From: Chris Erwin
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:00

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Richard S. Lumpkin wrote:

> Markus Kohler wrote:
> >
> > My Bios is totally old as my mainboard. So I installed EZ-BIOS from
> > western digital. This make all 1.6 GB available for dos. Then I
> > installed 3 dos partitions (250, 1100 and 150) and two linux
> > partitions, one for swap and one to put the kernel for lilo.
> >
>
> It appears EZ-BIOS is incompatiable with Linux, judging from what I've
> read here over the last week.
>

My RH 5.0 distribution supports EZ-Bios.  Select to install LILO on boot
sector of hda, and your're in buisness.  EZ-Bios will run first, giving you
the opportunity to boot from floppy, then it kicks over to LILO.   Works
for me.

-Chris

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From: Chris Erwin <NOSPAMcserwin@micron.net>
Subject: Re: EZ-BIOS fuer WD harddisk
Date: 1998/08/16
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