~Toughbooktalk~

Shawn wrote:The 160 could be "bad" or perhaps the bios has a size limit on the HDD.

Changed down to a 40Gb...
How could I tell if there is a Bios restriction?

Cheers.

Well, tried that, whilst installing Ubuntu 9.10 with a slight code variation...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1496711

and we have progress...

Not a lot, but it booted up to the words...

Grub loading.

That was 30 minutes ago.

Never did that before.

Hi Jeff,

interesting to know..
The 160 is Samsung, although have also been having troubles with a Toshiba and Hitachi, although all of them work fine in my IBM T42.

Gonna downgrade to the Hitachi 40Gb and try again.

Thanks

Hi,

no difference with or without the DVD Rom installed.

Cheers

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