[SLUG] Warning to EZ-Drive or other Boot Manager Users!

From: Steven Buehler (steven@sanctuaryweb.org)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 18:23:31 EDT


If you've got an older system as I do that requires the use of EZ-Drive or some
other DOS BIOS fix to be able to use larger harddrives that the BIOS allows, you
will have issues with installing the 2.6 kernel (as I have had with Mandrake
10). If you're only putting Linux on the system, this info is irrelevant as
Linux handles the BIOS fix itself, but if you are dual-booting with a Windows OS
you'll need this information. What happens is that during the partitioning
portion of the install, the installer sees your entire hard drive as one large
"EZ-Drive" partition regardless of what's on it, UNLESS you add the phrase
"hda=remap" to your boot string (i.e., "linux hda=remap"). That tells the
kernel that your drive is remapped with a BIOS program and Linux corrects itself
accordingly.

You will also need to add the remap string to your lilo or grub statements for
booting into Linux, or 2.6 won't find your root partitions (it'll see the one
large EZ-Drive image and throw a kernel panic).

SWB

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