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by **Markus Kohl** » Fri, 14 Aug 1998 04:00:00

Hi,

I did some chance (better: I wanted to do some chances) on my
computer, put in a new 6GB drive and wanted to use my old Western
Digital (WD) Drive as new DOS drive.

My Bios is totally old as my mainboard. So I installed EZ-BIOS from
western digital. This make all 1.6 GB available for dos. Then I
installed 3 dos partitions (250, 1100 and 150) and two linux
partitions, one for swap and one to put the kernel for lilo.

Problems:

1. If I want to check the linux native partition with e2fsck I get an
error message with "bad superblock...". Sometimes if I mount the large
dos partition I get the message "too many mounts or bad superblock..."

2. EZ-BIOS seems to be in the master boot record. Can I still use lilo
then?

Please also send an answer per email. Any comment is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Markus

by **Richard S. Lumpki** » Sat, 15 Aug 1998 04:00:00

> My Bios is totally old as my mainboard. So I installed EZ-BIOS from
> western digital. This make all 1.6 GB available for dos. Then I
> installed 3 dos partitions (250, 1100 and 150) and two linux
> partitions, one for swap and one to put the kernel for lilo.

It appears EZ-BIOS is incompatiable with Linux, judging from what I've
read here over the last week.

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by **Chris Erwi** » Mon, 17 Aug 1998 04:00:00

> > My Bios is totally old as my mainboard. So I installed EZ-BIOS from
> > western digital. This make all 1.6 GB available for dos. Then I
> > installed 3 dos partitions (250, 1100 and 150) and two linux
> > partitions, one for swap and one to put the kernel for lilo.

> It appears EZ-BIOS is incompatiable with Linux, judging from what I've
> read here over the last week.

My RH 5.0 distribution supports EZ-Bios. Select to install LILO on boot
sector of hda, and your're in buisness. EZ-Bios will run first, giving you
the opportunity to boot from floppy, then it kicks over to LILO. Works
for me.

-Chris

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