[plug] Success with antique hardware

[David Campbell]

Follow-up on the results of trying to install Linux on an aging 486.

a) Gary Alpike's suggestion about a boot floppy was correct, this certainly 
made the rescue disk load a lot quicker.

b) Used a very obscure option to force LILO to pretend the disk had a 
2046/16/63 geometry instead of the 1023/32/63. I also needed to append 
"hda=1023,32,63" so that the partition table came out right under Linux. In 
theory this machine doesn't care about the BIOS settings as long as it reads 
the MBR :-)

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
disk=/dev/hda
	cylinders=2046
	heads=16
	sectors=63
append="hda=1023,32,63"
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

David Campbell
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campbell at torque.net

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Consider it as a request from the enlightened for you to brush
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