On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:09:03AM +0100, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
> [...]
> 	My (stange) hardware:
> 40Go Harddrive on compaq 486 DX/2 50Mhz, no bios interface (no compaq 
> partition on hd)
> Only bsd and linux kernels, when loaded, are able to recognize my 40Go 
> harddrive (not windows), that's why the boot precess won't recognize it too.

If the BIOS doesn't handle the hard disk properly then you won't be able to
load a kernel from it: the boot loader uses BIOS routines to read the disk.
Maybe you could use a small drive with only the boot partition ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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