> Sharrea wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > <Large snip, equivalent to a surgical procedure i'm sure. Sorry > couldn't resist :) > > I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different > > geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for > > hda so I can't install without wiping the drive clean. Any help would be > > much appreciated. > > > > For now I'll try booting with a dos floppy and doing "fdisk /mbr" then > > rebooting with Mandrake boot disk and running lilo - just in case the lilo > > upgrades caused this problem - a long shot I know. > > > > Sharrea > > -- > > The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better" so I installed Linux. > > > > Sounds like bad sectors. Probably (IF thats the case) its a dying > drive. RMA or chuck it. Not your fault. And fwiw, BIOSes, other OSes, > etc all read HDD geom. very differently. Hell theres a few threads on > this in the archives. I know, i wrote a whole little diatribe on it > myself. so did Ed Tharp et al. > -- > Femme > > Good Decisions You boss Made: > > "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that > character from Peanuts." > > - Source: Dilbert > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
-- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts." - Source: Dilbert
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