[ale] rescue disk?

John jcouncilman at knology.net
Fri Jul 28 13:01:53 EDT 2000


The P5AB is the WORST motherboard ever made.. I have one and absolutely hate
it.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Maltzen" <maltzen at mm.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "joshy" <joshy at mindspring.com>; <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] rescue disk?


> If you can't find a BIOS upgrade for your system, you'll definitely want
to
> find a new mobo.
>
> When I first installed a new 36GB drive in my Asus P5AB motherboard
system,
> the system refused to boot. I finally found a new (beta) flash BIOS that
> cured the problem.
>
> The other solution I found was to attach the drive to the second IDE
> controller but NOT enable the second controller in BIOS. When Linux comes
up
> it uses it's own IDE controller routines and will be able to see the drive
> in it's entirety. (This presumes you have a bootable drive on the first
IDE
> controller)
>
> In the meantime, go visit Tom's site (www.toms.net) and get a copy of
Tom's
> Root/Boot; it is invaluable in emergency situations...
>
> >
> > this is a rather embarassing question...
> >
> >
> > I need to build a rescue disk for a RedHat 6.1 (Cartman) computer.  I
> > couldn't find a rescue.img in the 6.1 distribution so I downloaded
> > rescue.img from a 5.2 distribution and put it on a floppy using rawrite,
> > but the 5.2 install disk said it couldn't find a valid rescue.img on the
> > floppy.
> >
> >
> > You see, I got a new 60GB harddrive and my BIOS can't read it. I tried
> > Maxtor's MaxBlast software to trick the computer into reading more than
> > 32GB, but it blew away lilo, and I, um, neglected to create a custom
> > rescue disk earlier. (i'll take my lashings now, thank you).  All I need
> > to do is to boot Linux so that I can reinstall lilo.
> >
> > Of course, this won't help the bigger issue of getting Linux to see the
> > full 60GB drive. My BIOS hangs when I boot the drive in a normal
> > configuration and if I set the "limit cylinders" jumper it only sees a
> > 32GB drive. any ideas? is my only choice to get a new motherboard that
can
> > handle large drives?
>
>
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