The 03.10.20 at 15:07, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
since the BIOS is too old to do that. But of course, the bootloader needs to be visible to the BIOS somewhere, and it thinks there is no hard disk in the PC, therefore it won't boot. I assume ...
Right.
So the three options would be: - use an IDE controller card - upgrade the BIOS - install a smaller drive purely for the boot process
Or simply a floppy.
If my reasoning here is wrong, I'd be grateful for comments from people.
I installed a 2Gb (yes, two) on an old 386SX-20 which originally came with a 82 Megabyte hard disk. It is so old (1991) that it doesn't do detection, I had to enter head/side/sector count manually in the Bios - but it works! Dos only can use the first 502 Mb, but linux was happy to partition and install on the rest. So... perhaps you can do something similar. You only need a /boot partition where the bios can see it, then use the rest of the disk for linux. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson