Matt Housh wrote:
>
> > I went thru the info provided on this page. According to that I should
> > be doing a mapping of
> > C/H/S C/H/S
> > 8682/64/32 = 1106/255/53
> >
> > The above page also says that I should provide the new geometry to the
> > kernel thru the lilo boot prompt. But what do I do if I am doing fresh
> > install and the scsi disk is the only available disk on the system? For
> > fresh install, I tried to give linux sda=1106,255,63 during the 'boot:'
> > prompt, but that did not help.
> >
> > The above doc also says that BIOS gives the geometry figures before the
> > kernel is booted. Is it possible to change the geometry in the BIOS
> > itself?
>
> The difference in that document and what you're trying to do is
> that you're using a SCSI card, which provides its own bios to control the
> drives. When you use IDE, that's on the motherboard, but not SCSI. It
> should still work to pass the parameters on the lilo boot line, though.
> What does it do when you try it? And have you checked in fdisk during the
> install to see if the geometry is correct then?
>
> Matt
>
>
Sorry for not answering earlier to this old topic. When I handle SCSI
disks I only face to this geometry problem when I try to install Linux
NOT onto the first SCSI drive in the set (second, 3rd, etc). I suggest
to install Linux (mean /boot partition) onto the first disk, and rest on
other disk(s) so there might be no problem at all.
Misko
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