Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, wb2oyc wrote:
> >
> >I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then
> >cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should
> >avoid eating your data.
> >
> If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe.
> Any change to the geometry will render it unable to access the disk.
> You probably will see the dreaded "LI" when you try.
In that case, re-running LILO should make it work with the new geometry.
Matthew
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