Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run on that box. On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > hi guys, > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > my problem is however, > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > just to give a quick background, > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > get linux to come up. > thanks in advance for any help > > >
