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Boot disk for suse

Name: Ekce 2005-09-13 2:19

I installed Suse linux 9.3. I don't have a floppy drive. When I try to boot I get Error 18, after some research I have found out that it happens when the bios, and linux disagree on the hard drive size. the hard drive is 300gb's, but the bios reads it as 60~something, and linux as 270~something, either way, the best way to fix it would be to flash the bios, but I don't have a floppy drive to do so. I installed over ftp, and was able to start linux using the option "boot installed [system]?". My question is can I make a CD that will boot up suse without having to connect anywhere, and with the same settings I have on suse now (current kernel, drivers for mouse keyboard and such)?, is there a boot loader which will overlook this error? I was thinking about using nuni, but it says it's for the ext2 filesystem, and I have reiser. any help would be greatly appreciated

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-13 20:12

I believe GRUB has a 'stroke' option which tells it to be particularly careful about what it collects from the bios, scan the hardware itself, and correct any mistakes that is able in the bios registers.

Also, floppies eat DICK, and i am horrified that BIOS firmware creators still expect to find them for maintenence.

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