12GB hard drive on old BIOS

[David Mandala]

Go into your bios and turn off the hard disk entirely, just set it to
none. That should allow the system to boot. The image on the floppy
should see the hd anyway and allow the full use of it.

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 20:20, Alan Dayley wrote:
> On Monday 17 February 2003 20:12, David Mandala wrote:
> > Good news is Linux does not care once it's booted the entire drive is
> > available, bad news is, you either need to get a newer bios or boot from
> > floppy/cd-rom.
> 
> I have a boot floppy but the computer doesn't get that far.  You are saying 
> that I have other issues beyond the hard drive and BIOS?  Maybe...
> 
> Alan
> 
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