On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 04:48:22 -0700, cyber0ne wrote:

[ Please do not top-post, TIA. ]

> What I ended up doing was telling the BIOS not to auto-detect anything
> about HDA, and just fed it the cylinder-head-sector information and
> told it to use LBA. Seems to be working now,

Nice. If you need more info about this stuff: try the EIDE howto:
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html

> but I'll be sure and check back with this newsgroup if that changes

Well, if i understand your setup, that would be as soon as your CMOS
battery runs out of power ... Hence i'd switch to the Grub bootloader:
ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-current/extra/grub/

> Thanks for everyone's help!

Sure thing.

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cyber0ne wrote:

> There are cable-select-specific wires? ew. I've got one hard drive
> (primary master) and one cd drive (primary slave). I've tried 2
> different cables, same problem. Unplugging the CD drive entirely
> doesn't fix it either.

Yep, there are. Most are used (in my experience) in those complete-sold PC's
as in "Dell".
Usually there _should_ be a marking on the cable. Mine had none.

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> Well, if i understand your setup, that would be as soon as your CMOS
> battery runs out of power ... Hence i'd switch to the Grub bootloader:
> ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-current/extra/grub/

Certainly worth a try. Though, now that the machine is in a general
state of "working" I think I'll see what else Lilo has to offer before
abandoning it. If for no other reason than to use the same boot
loader as all my other machines. The `-g` flag or `geometric` option
in Lilo seems like it may be of use here, but I won't be able to test
it until I get home tonight.


Regards,
David P. Donahue
ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu