Re: Need help installing Fedora Core 3

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 11/28/04

  • Next message: Randy Crawford: "Re: Need help installing Fedora Core 3" 
    Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:33:02 GMT

    On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:15:47 -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote:

    > This is, perhaps stupid, but should the BIOS be set to LBA as well? I
    > did find a check box to force GRUB to use LBA. My BIOS indicates that
    > the "AUTO" setting is supposed to set to LBA if the drive supports it
    > and if the drive was originally formatted with LBA. The second part
    > might be the problem child though, as the drive I'm using was formatted
    > once prior and I know not under what mode it was formatted. (I got the
    > drive free, it was an 80gb my father didn't need.)

    In the past I found I had to set set bios LBA and reformat back in my
    dos days to get a disk set correctly. I have sense always set a drive
    LBA before using.
     

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