[vdr] Re: Disk suggestions?

["Steffen Koch" <Steffen.Koch@koch-enterprises.de>]

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:42:49 +0200, Christian Vogt wrote:

>Well, forgive me, but it seems that I am one of those Windoze-dummies :-)
>Just to be shure: do I need
>a.) at least one small DISK to boot from, or
>b.) one small PARTITION at the beginning of the one and only large
>non-Bios-supported disk.
>Option b.) would be nice, but I don't really believe that this will work. To
>make the system boot from HD, you need to tell the Bios about the disk. The
It works... Tell the BIOS to set the disk to DOS/normal

install linux
I have:
small /boot partition: approx. 20 Megs
/: approx 2 GB
/video0: 100GB
/video1: 100GB

>only thing I can imagine to get b.) running is to tell the Bios wrong
>parameters in C/H/S-notation and hope that it will be able to find the small
>boot partition at the start of the Disk.  Does anybody tried this
>successfully? (AFAIK modern disk dives can still be accessed via C/H/S
>mehod)