Adding hard disks

Adding hard disks

Supported hard disk configurations

Adding secondary hard disks

Configuring a SCSI hard disk

Configuring a USB hard disk

Configuring IDE disks and disk controllers

Installing a hard disk
    Changing default disk parameters using dkinit
    Partitioning a hard disk using fdisk
    Dividing a disk partition into divisions using divvy

Overcoming BIOS limitations
    Defining IDE and ESDI disk geometry in the BIOS
    Overriding the root disk geometry stored in the BIOS
    Writing a new masterboot block
    BIOS support for disks larger than 1024 cylinders

Replacing the root hard disk
    Configuring the root hard disk

Troubleshooting hard disks
    Setting hard disk interleave
    Formatting hard disks