Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Problem with larger IDE drive | From | Shalon Wood <> | Date | 25 Mar 1999 07:38:47 -0600 |
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dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW) writes:
> 11.1 BIOS complications > > As just mentioned, large disks return the geometry C=16383, H=16, S=63 > independent of the actual size, while the actual size is returned in > the value of LBAcapacity. Some BIOSes do not recognize this, and > translate this 16383/16/63 into something with fewer cylinders and more > heads, for example 1024/255/63 or 1027/255/63. So, the kernel must not only > recognize the single geometry 16383/16/63, but also all BIOS-mangled > versions of it. Since 2.2.2 this is done correctly > (by taking the BIOS idea of H and S, and computing C = capacity/(H*S)).
I'll note that when I installed RH5.2 onto a 10.1G IBM disk, I had no problem with partitioning and such. However, I had to add 'linear' to lilo.conf to get it to actually boot. Otherwise, I got "LI". FYI.
Shalon Wood
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