> K8N-E. It says: > > <oops, PDF is now corrupt...and ASUS's web site is > way too damn slow for
Tell me about it! Pages don't open or give errors or lead to a rabbit warren of irrelevant links. English often incomprehensible. No more Asus products for this buckaroo! > > It said that LBA mode will be disabled if the disk > was "formatted" > without LBA being enabled. It was light on the > details, but I assume > that really means "partitioned" with 16 heads > instead of 255. Yes, I read that bit. But it comes up "On" in another PC. > > You can try plugging the disk into the controller, How? There's only an IDE connector on the drive. > PartitionMagic is the best for this, but at $70 it > is a bit pricey. Just happen to have PQ7. Can't use it at all on the Sempron box. I used it on the K6 box to generate the two disk boot disk set but they are not transferable to the Sempron box. They boot to a gray/green screen with some garbled text and then nothing. > There may be free programs to do this, but I have no > experience with them. Think I'll try qparted mentioned by James Hiscock further up the list. BTW, I tried installing another, 200M drive as master and emerged grub onto it. When I ran grub it took about 2mins before finally giving the error: lost interrupt. Is that fatal? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
