Re: big IBM harddisk => works now!

[virtanen <hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi>]

Hi,

thanks for all, who gave me advice/ideas what to do!

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lars Knudsen wrote:


> Have you tried putting the disk on the secondary ide interface and
> disabling
> the secondary ide interface in the bios ? I know it sounds like a stupid
> thing
> to do, but linux does not use the bios very much and disabling the ide 
> interface might bypass the disk check that the BIOS seem to perform even
> when
> told not to, while there is still a chance that Linux can see the disk.

Actually this worked anyway. I put the Big One as hdc and disabled the
secondary ide interface in the bios. I set the bios for secondary
interface as 'manual' and ignored completely the geometry of the disk. 

1) Now while booting debian finds the disk. 

2) I used 'resc' and 'root' disks to start installation process to get
into 'initialising a harddisk'. Is there any other tool available to do
this? 

3) Now the only possibility to use cdrom seems to be that it must be
connected as 'hdd'. If I put it as hdb, the system hangs while booting... 
Maybe I have to change bios for that as well? Anyway my cd seems to be
working with the Big One on the same secondary interface. 

4) If I want to mount my Big One automatically while booting the box, how
to do that? 

> 
> Happy hacking,
> 
> \Gandalf

-hv