I'm always looking for used hard drives to mount as /boot with older BIOSes that can't handle drives bigger than 32GB/64GB/137GB. I just took apart an old 386 DELL laptop and found what is either a 30MB hard drive or an 80MB hard drive (its either a CP 2034 or a CP 2084, there's something stamped over what could be a 3 or an 8). With a 2.5" to 3.5" converter I've just found a decent drive to mount as /boot for an older BIOS. Of course, the laptop is 10 years old so I can't be sure the drive will function for much longer, but it should work long enough for what I need. __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
I just keep a bootable CD in the drive when it boots ;)
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Ah, but many of the old beasts that can't handle big drives also can't handle bootable CDs. I've got several Pentium-class machines that don't. ;)
--- Jon Pruente <jdpruente@gmail.com> wrote:
I just keep a bootable CD in the drive when it boots ;)
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Ah, but many of the old beasts that can't handle big drives also can't handle bootable CDs. I've got several Pentium-class machines that don't. ;)
Absolutely true, can't boot some of the newer LiveCDs which don't have boot floppies anymore. D*mnSmallLinux only works on some of them when you use the syslinux version. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com
On 12/6/05, Leo Mauler <webgiant@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Jon Pruente <jdpruente@gmail.com> wrote: Absolutely true, can't boot some of the newer LiveCDs which don't have boot floppies anymore.
D*mnSmallLinux only works on some of them when you use the syslinux version.
I've also had luck with using SBM ( http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html) to get older machines to boot from CD-ROM. You need either an SBM boot floppy or to install SMB to the MBR. It wouldn't work with an original 2x CD-ROM in a Toshiba Sat.Pro laptop, but did work in the same madchine with a 4x module, so it isn't always the BIOS that causes the troubles, too.
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