I'm trying to outfit an old duel-pentium 233mhz machine with a new hard drive (20gig) but I can't the the machine to properly find it. When I install Linux or a BSD it works and goes all the way to the installation of the bootloader (IE: packages install off the network, format of HD goes great). The bootloader either fails becuase it can't find the geometry of the BIOS -OR- it installs but after reboot the BIOS doesn't recognize the hard drive.

The machine has 128 MB of RAM (4x32's and 4 open RAM slots) with a TYAN some Mother board, and Award BIOS from 1996.