Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

* Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [071002 15:42]:
On 10/02/2007 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Hello all,
I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so much
when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB drive. The
box used to have an 8 GB drive that died last year.
This computer seems very picky over what drives it will actually boot. The
origional 8 GB and the new 8GB drive are the same WD. The 1.1 GB is also
a WD. Of the drives, it will only boot an 850 MB Quantum.
I tried all the different geometry settings (NORMAL, LBA, LARGE) and
reinstalled Etch and OpenBSD each time. No boots. Put in the 850 MB,
install Etch, boots OK.
Has anyone run into this before? My IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 will boot all
of the drives no problem.
As it is now, my 486 has the two WD drives so has lots of room for OBSD
(since Etch won't install).
Doug.

I have running here a PII with Asus P2B-F motherboard and a 40Gbyte
IDE drive. The manual for the P2B-F is rather poor, and fails to
provide a number of vital details.

I have been running a dual-boot Debian/W2000 scheme, with Debian
"testing" on one drive and W2000 on the other, and using GRUB as the
boot loader. With a 366 MHz process, performance with W2000 and with
the Gnome desktop is acceptable, but sometimes a bit frustrating.

In order to get the system to boot, I found it necessary to install
the 32Gbyte clip jumper on any drive larger than 32Gbyte.

Once the system boots, W2000 thinks it is running on a 32Gbyte drive.
However, Debian sees the entire drive, despite the clip jumper.

RLH


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