Linux ignores the BIOS, but some motherboards (probably including the Asus K7M) don't allow you to boot from a hard drive which the BIOS can't read at startup.
I too had this situation with my current Linux system (dual PII-450Mhz) and the 80GB hard drive I put in it.
My solution was to mount a 1GB hard drive as the master, and the 80GB drive as the slave, on the Primary IDE. The 1GB drive is about 50MB /boot, and the rest I devoted to /var as I don't have a great many log files on this mostly personal desktop machine. Once the machine boots, Linux takes over and ignores the whining and moaning coming from the BIOS, allowing full access to the monster hard drive.
If you can't find a hard drive to mount as slave (sounds like your motherboard has the 64GB limit, so anything up to 64GB should work as the master drive), you could always boot from a floppy disk. Its all just a matter of getting the system booted and handing over control of the hard drives to Linux.
Or get one of the uber-geeks here to help you create a boot CD geared for your system. 8-)
--- hanasaki [email protected] wrote:
Have an old Asus k7m motherboard who's bios cannot handle the 120gig drive that replaced the 13gig that died. Any tips on how to get Linux installed and running again?
thanks
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