Re: Newbie having bad problems with EIDE drive

[Hartmut Figge <hfigge@knuut.de>]

Leif Steinhour wrote:

>     I've been trying for the last week to get my new (3.2G) IDE hard
> drive working properly. LILO will not load (for most configurations, I
> get as far as "LI"), and I can't seem to edit lilo.conf: when I edit it
> in "rescue" mode using the Red Hat 5.0 disks and then restart the system
> it keeps resetting itself. I've been very careful to keep the main

you are sure, you run /sbin/lilo after editing, are you?

> PhoenixBios version 4.05. It lets me set the large disk acess modes to
> both "DOS" and "Other", and for the specific disk lets me turn on and

choosing lba-mode should be the right thing.

hafi