[ale] EZ-Bios and Linux

[ircbob]

actually, it does work ... i dunno when it changed, but, with redhat6.0, add
linear to ure /etc/lilo.conf


linux (with lilo's linear mode on) doenst care about how bios reports the
hard drive parameters...  im able to use a maxtor 13gb (which comes up as a
8gb hd, in bios), (and had ez-drive installed on it), and a western digital
20gb (which also comes up as a 8gb) with no problems...

there's a faq out there some where on how exactly it works, if u really
wanna read it, lemem know and ill find it :-)



-----Original Message-----
 From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Nick
Lucent
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 7:44 AM
To: J. Reeves Hall
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] EZ-Bios and Linux


On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 02:22:59AM +0000, J. Reeves Hall shook his keyboard
and out fell:
> The EZ-Bios install disk usually has an uninstall feature. I've had to do
> this before with Ontrack's disk manager.
> But Linux will not work with any kind of disk manager software installed.
> It will install properly but it will not be bootable or recoverable.
>
> -Reeves
Ive gotten it to work on an old 486, but it required installing the overlay,
then resizing it (pqmagic), then creating a new partition w/ linux and
install it to that one, then lilo will load the boot manager (Least I think
thats how I did it). But at any rate I did get it to work, but it was quite
a PITA.

Nick
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