On Wednesday 17 April 2002 17:33, you wrote: > I just did a major upgrade on my computer and installed 8.2 at the same > time. I replaced my motherboard, cpu, memory and power supply and I now > have everything running well, except that d@#n WD hard drive. I have of > course slowed it down to DMA33, but I have problems with the (c,h,s) count > on it and the partition boundaries. > Right now, I get the following reports about the (c,h,s) triple: > DiskDrake: (4865, 255, 63) > fdisk: (4865, 255, 63) > bios: (19158, 16, 255) > > Not only do these not agree, but none of them are the same as fdisk > reported on the old motherboard: > fisk on old mobo: (77545, 16, 63) > I started with an empty hard drive on the old mobo and set up the > partitions inside Mandrake, so they are consistent with these last (c,h,s) > numbers. > Of course fdisk -l /dev/hde warns me now about inconsistent boundaries > [output below]. > What should I do? Put the old (c,h,s) numbers into lilo.conf? I already > have lba32 set in lilo.conf, and linear addressing activated in the bios. > One thing I know is that the bios will not accept the (77545,16,63) > triplet. > > Motherboard: MSI K7T266 Pro2. Bios: AMI version 3.4 > Hard drive: WD400-BB (Yes, I know it's trash, I bought it before I knew) > > Thanks for any help, > > Narfi. > Below: fdisk output and /etc/lilo.conf > > # fdisk -l /dev/hde > > Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hde1 * 1 64 511528+ 83 Linux > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(1014, 15, 63) should be (1014, 254, 63) > /dev/hde2 64 3844 30359448 85 Linux extended > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) > /dev/hde5 64 96 255496+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hde6 96 478 3071848+ 83 Linux > /dev/hde7 478 1116 5119600+ 83 Linux > /dev/hde8 1116 2901 14335744+ 83 Linux > /dev/hde9 2901 3155 2047720+ 83 Linux > /dev/hde10 3155 3206 409216+ 83 Linux > /dev/hde11 3206 3844 5119600+ 83 Linux > > # cat /etc/lilo.conf > default=linux > boot=/dev/hde > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > vga=normal > keytable=/boot/us.klt > lba32 > prompt > nowarn > timeout=100 > message=/boot/message > menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw > ignore-table > disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 > disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux > root=/dev/hde1 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="nobiospnp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi" > vga=788 > read-only We share the same Mobo, and I found something similar resulted. In my case I had a 40gig Maxtor hard drive, where all the different means of defining hard drive size, came up with different answers, no matter which partition tools were employed. I asked the hard drive manufacturers, about this problem, and to cut a long story short, it turns out there are more than one way of actually measuring hard drive sizes, which I did not know. It all depends upon which formular is employed. This can mean that bioses can vary the result In the end I elected to use one partition tool, PQ Partition Magic, to do all the partition work,on all my hard drives, this way at least , the size came out equal no matter which means of listing the partition table you chose to work with, that is the old dos fdisk, or linux fdisk , and there were no missing bits between the partitions, that somehow get created , and cyliners head and sectors get rounded off. I also notice your lilo.conf has additional stanzas:- ignor table disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 I would ask what these entries are there for ? possibly this has something to do with the fact that perhaps you are not multiple booting with windows as well, where as I am. If this hard drive is hde then it is the 5th hard drive in your system. This probably means that RAID control comes into it. I know our Mobo can handle them , but I am not at this position yet,so I would be interested to know how you got on with adding these additional hard drives. I haven't filled all 40(reduced by system to 38gigs) gigs yet , but I am sure that I will.
regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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