Re: hard disk not recognized
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:44:21AM -0800, richart1@home.com wrote:
> I just bought a Dell Dimension XPS T600 with a Maxtor 13.6GB hard disk. I
> wanted to install Linux so I repartitioned the drive to leave 6GB free.
> Windows works fine on its 7GB. The Linux boot disk (I've tried both Debian
> and Red Hat) tells me I don't have a hard drive. I read that the boot
> partition needs to be in the first 8.4GB. The existing partition is only 7GB
> so I think that is OK. Can anyone tell me what I need to do? Thanks
>
> Bob
The problem is that the BIOS only addresses up to the 1024th cylinder
at boot time.
The recommended way is to create a small partition (10-15MB) to hold
your kernels and map files at the start of your disk. Then use the
next 7Gb for Windows and the balance for you Linux partition.
There's more information than you can shake a stick at in
http://www.secretagent.com/doc/howto/mini/Large-Disk.txt
or if you have another box already running Debian, the same
document is in
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk.txt.gz
Good luck.
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Regards,
Paul
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