On Monday 16 December 2002 06:23 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:34, Joe Braddock wrote: > > Is it possible that the size is too large for your bios? Most of the > > large WD drives come with floppy to install ez-bios or something like > > that on the drive to overwrite the system's drive table. > > Which is a rather horrid solution, unless you're being threatened with a > gun to your head. The best way is a hardware system board bios update > downloadable from the net that is newer than what you have. Most boards > these days that are not ancient history can be flashed with a newer bios > from the manufacturer that solves just these types of problems. Even > ones older than that can be updated; I still have a ROM programmer card > here which plugs into an ISA slot and has a cable/socket for a range of > different brand/types of ROM chips. I can load a new bios from a file > or I can clone another bios chip to file and then load onto a new ROM > chip. > > The best thing is to update the mobo bios if there is an update > available on the net and the mobo is flashable. > > > Problem is, > > if you're booting from CD-ROM, the system never get's the chance to > > read the new drive table from the hard drive. If you think that may > > be the problem, the solution I've used is to first boot from the hard > > drive and once the new drive table loads, reboot (without powering > > off) and put the CD in. The system usually doesn't clear out the new > > drive table. > > > > Joeb > > > > Journal-601, buffer write failed > > Kernel BUG at prints.c:334! > > invalid operand: 0000 > > cpu 0 > > > > Then a dump. I've taken a photo of it if the actual text is helpful. I've > > done some reading that WD drives don't work well with Linux? Anybody have > > any light to shed? > > One question I'm wondering about right now is the make/model of the > system board. ? >
A brand new Intel D845PEBT2 with a 2.4ghz P4 CPU. > LX
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