[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware failure
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Wed Jul 25 02:55:01 UTC 2007
Eric Smith wrote:
>
> No luck. I switched out the IDE ribbon and had the same results... able
> to boot the old fc3 drive but not a newer winxp or fc6 drive. I also
> retried the fedora live cd while the working HDD was connected and was
> not able to get that to boot either. I triple checked all the pins and
> there is nothing visibly wrong anywhere.
Are the newer drives perhaps too large (in capacity I mean) for the BIOS
of that old mobo?
You can use "overlays", or create a small boot partition that the BIOS
can recognize, then turn control over to a kernel that can deal with
larger partitions.
Both these solutions would most likely wipe out any data on the drive
however.
BEWW
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