Eberhard Roloff wrote:

Giorgos wrote:

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Hi!!! :-)

Finally, after A LOT of searching, I realized that it was a BIOS related error! My BIOS (6yo) can't properly recognize my IDE 230GB disk. Elite hasn't any BIOS updates and Ontrack utility (from WD site) for LBA support in older BIOSes, worked for me ONLY for 1 OS installed at disk.

Seems like I have to buy a PCI hard disk controller (not a PCI express, since I don't have such slots) :-) , which it comes with its own BIOS (bypassing motherboard BIOS).

Meanwhille, I connected as 2nd, an older hard disk (10GB) and I installed openSUSE there.

GRUB and GAG worked properly.

From now on, I have to read a number of manuals and keep practising. :-)

THANKS AGAIN for your help!!! Giorgos. :-) Hi, Linux generally does not care about what your Bios thinks of your harddisk. It handles the harddisk management entirely by itself, after the OS is started, that is.

Btw. modern Windows Versons do control the harddiskmanagement by themselves, as well.

So: In order to use your 230GB disk, just use your older disk to store /boot and then use the larger, faster disk for the rest of it.

Should your Bios recognize your disk "somehow" but erratically (i.e. way to small), you can also use the "smaller disk" for /boot and make use of the remaining space from Linux.

Surely, an additional PCI controller could be faster, at least sometimes ;-)), but it is not needed.

regards Eberhard I forgot: Smart Boot Manager is also suitable to handle such things. Have a look here: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/download.html

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Eberhard Roloff wrote:

Giorgos wrote:

...

Hi!!! :-)

Finally, after A LOT of searching, I realized that it was a BIOS related error! My BIOS (6yo) can't properly recognize my IDE 230GB disk. Elite hasn't any BIOS updates and Ontrack utility (from WD site) for LBA support in older BIOSes, worked for me ONLY for 1 OS installed at disk.

Seems like I have to buy a PCI hard disk controller (not a PCI express, since I don't have such slots) :-) , which it comes with its own BIOS (bypassing motherboard BIOS).

Meanwhille, I connected as 2nd, an older hard disk (10GB) and I installed openSUSE there.

GRUB and GAG worked properly.

From now on, I have to read a number of manuals and keep practising. :-)

THANKS AGAIN for your help!!! Giorgos. :-) Hi, Linux generally does not care about what your Bios thinks of your harddisk. It handles the harddisk management entirely by itself, after the OS is started, that is.

Btw. modern Windows Versons do control the harddiskmanagement by themselves, as well.

So: In order to use your 230GB disk, just use your older disk to store /boot and then use the larger, faster disk for the rest of it.

Should your Bios recognize your disk "somehow" but erratically (i.e. way to small), you can also use the "smaller disk" for /boot and make use of the remaining space from Linux.

Surely, an additional PCI controller could be faster, at least sometimes ;-)), but it is not needed.

regards Eberhard I forgot: Smart Boot Manager is also suitable to handle such things. Have a look here: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/download.html

regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org