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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Ok, here's the full story: I recently got a new 200GB HD for my Debian Linux server. The previous HD was only like 4GB. Since this server needs to be used for storing website backups, it needed more space. So, anyway, I installed the base system of Debian 4.0r1. When I tried to boot into the new system, I got a error 18 from GRUB. After much research I found out that the cause of this is that my BIOS is rather old and can't recognize my HD larger than 136GB. So, now I need to get my BIOS updated, but I have one problem. The server doesn't have a floppy drive, just a CD-ROM drive. So is it possible to upgrade my BIOS via CD? Or should I put my computer to sleep, take it's floppy drive, put it in the server, upgrade the BIOS, put the floppy drive back in my computer before it even know it was gone? I guess another solution would be to partition the HD to a smaller partition (=< 136GB), but I'd like to see and use all of my HD. I don't even know as a fact if that would work, but I'm just assuming it will. [url=http://www.zavaboy.com][img]http://asylum.zavaboy.com/zavaboy.gif[/img][/url] Loading...
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