Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.0 conflicts with disk manager

From: Mark Knudson (mrk_at_rochester.rr.com)
Date: 11/03/03

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    Damon Register wrote:

    > The PC giving me trouble is an HP 233MHz Pentium from 1997.
    > I have upgraded the hard drive a while ago with a Maxtor 40GB.
    > The BIOS of that PC didn't recognize a drive that big and there was
    > no BIOS update available so I had to use the Maxtor disk manager
    > software. It worked fine for Windows 98. I was even able to install
    > SuSE 8.0 along with 98 without too much trouble. The disk manager
    > provides for booting from floppy after loading the manager so I have
    > to use the SuSE floppies to install. I tried to install SuSE 9.0
    > but after all the packages are installed and the system reboots,
    > the disk manager has been trashed and the system will not boot.
    > I can restore the disk manager and Windows 98 is still there but
    > The SuSE 9.0 is still not working
    >
    > Has anyone had experience with getting SuSE 9 to work with
    > a disk that has manager software?
    >
    > Damon Register
    >
    >
    >
    Several years ago I installed linux on an AMS 200MHz laptop along side
    Win95.
    The machine has a bios extender from System Soft that I had previously
    installed when I upgraded the disk.
    I could not get GRUB and the bios extender to get along together. It
    appeared that they both wanted to use the first track of the disk.
    Switching to LILO solved the problem for me. 

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