[plug] IDE Hard drive not detecting
Christian
christian at global.net.au
Fri Sep 10 15:21:31 WST 1999
John Breen wrote:
>
> I used to have this very problem with my old 386. You can add a line to
> your initial LILO (or put in a boot time parameter) to tell it about the
> HDD. From memory, it's
>
> hdb=<C>,<H>,<S>
>
> (Assuming it's going to be hdb)
>
> You should only need this once, after that Linux should "remember"...
As mentioned in my original email, I had already tried this with no real
luck. But thanks anyway. :) Thanks also to everyone else who made
suggestions. In the end I swapped the CDROM and HDD around and
everything seems to work fine with that configuration.
Regards,
Christian.
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