deftones12,

Zelfaldor: I had to install the segate DDO and use the drive limit jumper on the HDD. now when I go and try to install linux it installs fine, but then when I reboot it freezes when loading the bootloader.
Lilo and DDO don’t mix.

After the BIOS bootstrap(gotta love the old phraseology!) runs, BIOS acquires its next instructions from the Master Boot Record located on the first physical sector of the first bootable device (floopy, CD, HDD, whichever). Since we are talking about his HDD, obviously then it is the first sector of the hard disk. And of course Lilo is loaded there. The problem is that in order for DDO to always be loaded at boot up, DDO changes the MBR by adding a driver at the very beginning! Thus the conflict.


http://storagereview.com/guide2000/r...s/overDDO.html

The software must be loaded immediately when the machine is booted, to ensure that the driver is in place before any other piece of software tries to access the disk. Otherwise, the disk will not work properly.

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