From: Chris Schumann (chris_at_twp-llc.com)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 12:36:31 EST
DOS has a bug/feature that sometimes appears with large drives. If the
drive geometry appears as 256 heads (as it does on one of my old buggy
motherboards), DOS will not boot if there is ANY DOS partition on the
drive.
I'm not sure if the new DOSen (PC DOS 2000, OpenDOS others) can handle
bigger drives, but you might want to check.
Also try Ranish Partition Manager to play with your partitions and MBR.
It's great and free. http://www.ranish.com/part/
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Tom Rockwell wrote:
> A friend and I put a new HD (4GB) in his 380d last night. We had a few
> hitches and then a big one :-( The HD had a Linux install on it and
> when first installed the machine booted ok. Then I installed DOS on the
> first partition and after restarting, we couldn't get it to boot from
> any drive. When powered up, the machine shows the size of the installed
> memory (passes memory check) and then spins up the harddrive and CD and
> hits the floppy, but doesn't advance past the splash screen that shows
> "IBM" and "Thinkpad". The drive access light stays on. We tried any
> number of different boot orders of the HD, FD, CD. We also ran self
> checks in the BIOS. (Haven't tried the advanced self checks that you
> get with cntr-A).
>
> Any ideas on how to proceed?
>
> Also, what is the max memory that a 380d can take - 32MB or 64MB sodimm?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
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