[Gllug] Booting older x86 boards from a large ide disc

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 30 Aug, Ian Norton wrote:

> 
> in the past all i have needed to do for this is to set the disk geometry
> manually in the bios, pretty much anything will do, then you should be
> easily able to access the mbr and boot from it, after booting both linux
> and nt throw out the bios disk geometry and use thier own ones.
> 
> set it to an LBA mode disk of about 400mb, then put the disk in and
> viola,
> 
> Ian

   I will have a play. Last time I tried to set it manually it was an 80GB
disc, the BIOS showed the old configuration for a 27GB disc, so I left it
but the BIOS hung again.

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Chris Bell

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