[plug] Big new hdd in old pc

[Andrew Furey]

> Tried that.  No matter what I set the parameters to,
> the post would stop at the ide detection routine
when
> it came to the hdd, even when the bios was told it
> wasn't there. Tried on hda, hdc, hdd with same
result
> each time.  Is this common bios behavior?  Happy to
> boot without the hdd no matter what I told it was in
> there though.

Have you tried deliberately setting that drive to
"None" (as opposed to the default "Auto")? With any
luck the BIOS should really ignore that device then.

(Trying to remember what I did for mine - it's my
gateway so I don't really want to turn it off + find
out :( )

Andrew

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