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Raoul_Duke
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 Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:17 pm Post subject: Bios overide software can't boot from cdrom......workaround? |
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I'm about to install Gentoo on a different machine, problem is..........i have special software installed to overide the bios because it can't detect harddrives over 30gb. (mine is 60gb)
This software allows booting from floppy or boot-loader........but not cdrom. Is there anything i can put on a floppy to just access the cdrom and start installation from the CD. My bios allows this but if i go direct from cd, it by-passes the bios software and gives bad reports for the drive size. This causes all sorts of problems for installing, making it impossible to do 
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gilesjuk
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| Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: Bios overide software can't boot from cdrom......workaro |
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| Raoul_Duke wrote: | I'm about to install Gentoo on a different machine, problem is..........i have special software installed to overide the bios because it can't detect harddrives over 30gb. (mine is 60gb)
This software allows booting from floppy or boot-loader........but not cdrom. Is there anything i can put on a floppy to just access the cdrom and start installation from the CD. My bios allows this but if i go direct from cd, it by-passes the bios software and gives bad reports for the drive size. This causes all sorts of problems for installing, making it impossible to do
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What software is it? what motherboard, chipset etc..?
This mentions alternative install methods:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
This thread discusses the floppy bootdisk method (some other suggestions there, including using a redhat floppy)
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27951
ps. If the special software is something like Maxblast then leave that in the MBR, install your LILO/GRUB loader in the boot partition. |
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Mimamau
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| also if you want to install only linux on this system, i would try to boot linux from the cd with the bios routine. linux doesnt use the bios to access the drive so it should detect your 60gb drive without problems. |
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Raoul_Duke
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Cheers guys......
The smartboot manager looks good, although does anyone know how to use it just on a floppy to just access the cdrom drive? The website is a bit confusing  |
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Raoul_Duke
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| Mimamau wrote: | | also if you want to install only linux on this system, i would try to boot linux from the cd with the bios routine. linux doesnt use the bios to access the drive so it should detect your 60gb drive without problems. |
I have tried that way and it doesn't see the correct sizes so i get stuck with a 2gb max install
p.s. the software is 'direct drive overlay' from IBM.....it's very good because it plays happily with grub  |
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