On Tuesday 18 June 2002 21:03, Matthew Dalton wrote: > What does your BIOS think the size and geometry of your drive are? Bios believes CHS is 2495/255/63, and size is about 2e10 bytes (I didn't write down the exact number).
> I'm thinking the problem is that Linux is getting confused by the > BIOS. I don't think so, though I did before. First, this problem didn't exist a few months ago, and I've had the same bios. Second, 2495/255/63 should be correct: 2495*255*63*(512 bytes/sector) * (1GB/2^30 bytes) = 19.1GB (the actual capacity of my HD). (it IS 512 bytes per sector, right?) Thanks anyway though - I didn't think to check this out until you suggested it, and that's valuable. Any other ideas? P.S.: > I think there's also a way to pass the real disk geometry to the > Linux kernel using a LILO (or GRUB, etc) parameter, ie. to override > the BIOS values. You'd have to investigate this solution yourself > though, as I've never tried it. You are correct on this, incidentally. The correct param is "hd=C/H/S" (from [kernel-source]/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]