Hardy Install CD cannot "see" my new, large, hard idsk
I have an 'official' Installer 8.04 LTS CD. Not long back, I installed successfully, all was good!
Then my (primary) hard disk went south! Booting got a "click" - pause - "click" (and repeat while true).
So, I talked around and got a good deal on a large disk-drive. Installed it.
The BIOS sees "Primary IDE, Master: LBA, ATA 100, 160GB"
Boot up the installer.
The installer sees only my "Secondary IDE, Slave: LBA 33, 8GB" -- it simply cannot see the primary disk at all.
First thought, it's because of the (new) SCSI-emulation handling of IDE drives. I dug out my 5.04 installer and booted it up. Using the /dev/hda scheme, I could see and partition my new drive.
Figured it might be worth seeing whether having a filesystem on the big disk would help, went back to the 8.04 installer. No joy there, still can't see it.
The only thing I can think of is that the problem is the size of the drive. And I know they now come bigger than that.
In desperation, I went back and actually installed from the 5.04 installer ( what a drag, by comparison).
But, after installing the boot loader, the re-boot activates the BIOS "Network Boot Helper" which spins wheels for a minute or two before realizing no-one is going to send it anything good. I've tried both GRUB and LILO.
I'm going to have to sit and watch this topic! I also can't do much with my e-mail!!!
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