On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Klaus Drews wrote: >I've got my first notebook a Dell Inspiron 5000. For all I've read, >I thought this one would work with Linux. But: >First thing, Linux complains about the harddisk which was preinstalled >with WIN98 (sorry for the words...). It has 12GB. After killing all >partitions under DOS, formatting and the mbr, Linux pretends to see a >7,7GB harddisk. >Is this a known bug with some controllers ? Is there a driver to fix it ? >Any other ideas ?
To get my Thinkpad 600 with it's 10G IDE drive recognised properly I had to run a 2.3.x kernel. Then when I knew the correct numbers I added the following to my lilo.conf: append="hda=XXXX,YYY,ZZ" Numbers removed to avoid people typing them in to their own systems and stuffing things. -- My current location - X marks the spot. X X X
