[ltp] 760XL with a BIG HD Problem

[Chris Schumann]

Just one data point for you. I had a Micron Millennia Pro 2 computer that 
came with a 2GB hard drive (dual Pentium Pro CPUs!). When I upgraded to an 
8GB drive, I found that ANY DOS partition at all on the drive would make 
DOS not boot.

I believe it was a bug in the BIOS that reported the number of heads as 
256, which would read as zero. It freaked out DOS, but every other OS I 
tried worked fine.

If you don't have the latest BIOS, go get it. If you do, then this still 
might be the issue. Maybe one if these ideas will work for you:

1 - Buy a floppy enclosure. They are on eBay for under $10 all the time.

2 - Buy a different NIC. They are like $2 used.

3 - Make a network boot floppy that actually works with your card. Seems 
like a lot of work to me, though.

4 - Sell the 760XL and get something a little more recent. I could never 
get sound to work on my 750P (with its awesome 33MHz 486 and 12MB RAM). 
I'm glad to be rid of it.