[wplug] dumb question about hard drives

[R.E.Coutch]

Check your BIOS settings.

Make sure your drive was auto detected or entered correctly.

If you changed the hard drive in the past and didn't update the settings 
this MIGHT cause these problems.

Is LBA turned on in BIOS?

How big is the drive and how old/new is the system/mother board?

-Bob


Hoss wrote:

>Hello,
>
>This has been bugging me for awhile, so I figured I may as well ask.
>With the hard drive I currently use as my linux partition, most kernel's
>won't get past "partition check: hda". It'll just sit there infinitely.
>The only exception has been slackware 8.1, which uses the kernel 2.4.18
>FreeBSD gives me a different error about hda, but that's a whole nother
>story. I was able to install slackware 9.0, but I used the old kernel from
>8.1. I just assumed my HD was fucked, but if it works with 2.4.18, there
>must be a way to install a newer kernel on it. The main problem being,
>booting from an install CD that uses 2.4.20 and freezes at the partition
>check. Anyone ever have a similar problem? Any ideas appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>hoss
>
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