On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:44:38 -0800 Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for > > device 0x81 Kernel: 62749 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors > > BIOS: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors > > > > Lilo still finishes and I'm still able to boot into my gentoo and > > libranet system. > > _______________________________________________ > > > Did you repartition before installing Gentoo? It shouldn't matter, but if > your old partition table from the previous OS install used a different drive > geometry (due to changes in BIOS or kernel) than the new one you would have > strange behaviour. I have had this happen once with a drive I transplanted > from an ancient machine to a new one without repartitioning. That's not what > the error indicates, but it might be worth looking into. > _______________________________________________ Also I've gotten really bad results if I forgot to reboot after repartitioning (you are warned by fdisk to do so) before trying to make a fs. -- Collins _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
