fdisk: 62MB HDD? Incorrect

jcw122 · Feb 17, 2006

Hey everyone, I'm currently in the Gentoo x86 LiveCD (this is so cool! I'm on OCF!!!)

Anyawy, I ran into the problem of my HDD. This comp is real old (AMD K6-2), and the HDD is supposed to be 8GB big, it has Windows98 on it. I figured I would be able to use fdisk inside the LiveCD in order to delete the partition, but Gentoo doesn't recognize any partitions, nothing. All it says is that the sectors are 2048 instead of 512, and that the HDD is only 62MB large...it's really weird.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

electrorcamd · Feb 17, 2006

Is it recognized correctly in the BIOS? It might not be able to recognize the whole disk since the computer is old, unless you use an overlay.

jcw122 · Feb 17, 2006

Well, I'm off it, I gave up for the night, I'll have to try it some other time.

I'll check tomorrow if it shows in BIOS, thanks!

jajmon · Feb 18, 2006

Too old, there has to be a line drawn in the sand as to what a distro can support hardware wise. Fact of life, get over it. I've known a lot of distros are dropping support for OLD hardware and I don't blame them.

jcw122 · Feb 18, 2006

jajmon said:
Too old, there has to be a line drawn in the sand as to what a distro can support hardware wise. Fact of life, get over it. I've known a lot of distros are dropping support for OLD hardware and I don't blame them.

It's a K6-2...I didn't think it wasn't gonna be supported, hmm...I'll have to read up.

jajmon · Feb 18, 2006

jcw122 said:
It's a K6-2...I didn't think it wasn't gonna be supported, hmm...I'll have to read up.

Almost 10 years old is the K6,,,the below is taken from this

http://www.tomax7.com/aplus/computers_timeline.htm

"1997
Intel introduces the MMX chip.
The Intel Pentium II 233 MHz processor is released.
////AMD introduces the K6 processor./////
Advanced Graphics Port or AGP design is released.
Cyrix is established.
DVDs go on sale.
Microsoft announces Windows 98."

Flamed_Chip · Feb 19, 2006

It isn't too old to be supported by Linux at all!! Please don't post false information, I am running Linux on a number of old Pentium's from 75-200Mhz without any problems. As hardware support is decided mostly by the kernel and not the individual distribution, if one distribution can support some piece of hardware, any can. The only problem you may find is when a distro is compiled for say i686 and your using an i586 chip for example.

As for the hard disk issue, was it being recognised by the BIOS to be the correct size? Also are you starting fdisk on the correct device? i.e 'fdisk /dev/hda'

jcw122 · Feb 20, 2006

Flamed_Chip said:
It isn't too old to be supported by Linux at all!! Please don't post false information, I am running Linux on a number of old Pentium's from 75-200Mhz without any problems. As hardware support is decided mostly by the kernel and not the individual distribution, if one distribution can support some piece of hardware, any can. The only problem you may find is when a distro is compiled for say i686 and your using an i586 chip for example.

As for the hard disk issue, was it being recognised by the BIOS to be the correct size? Also are you starting fdisk on the correct device? i.e 'fdisk /dev/hda'

Gentoo Linux has a i386 minimum spec. for the processor, I doubt there's a problem with that, cause K6-2 is i586.

Anyway, I'm away, I'll have to figure out what BIOS says whne I get back. That or I'll boot into Windows and see what it tells me.

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