FIXED - Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-19 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:25, Michel Loos wrote: > Did you format (mkfs) those 2 partitions before trying to mount them? > Seems the kernel sees your old formatation on hda2 and no formatation > on hda3 D'oh, THAT'S what I was missing :) mkfs'ing the partitions solved the problem. Thanks to

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-19 Thread Michel Loos
Em Qua, 2002-06-19 às 02:18, Aaron Maxwell escreveu: > I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning > as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller > partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its > size is 926 MB, and it conta

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I tried the partitioning with fdisk, cfdisk, and parted (I decided not >to try sfdisk yet). Same results, except parted produced this warning: > Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is > 2495

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-19 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 07:18, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning > as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller > partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its > size is 926 MB, and it contain

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-19 Thread Aaron Maxwell
I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its size is 926 MB, and it contains all the old hurd files. I did not write it down and can

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-19 Thread Aaron Maxwell
I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its size is 926 MB, and it contains all the old hurd files. I did not write it down and can

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-18 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 21:03, Matthew Dalton wrote: > What does your BIOS think the size and geometry of your drive are? Bios believes CHS is 2495/255/63, and size is about 2e10 bytes (I didn't write down the exact number). > I'm thinking the problem is that Linux is getting confused by the > BI

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Aaron Maxwell wrote: > shiznit:~# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 11G 4.5G 6.0G 43% / > /dev/hda2 926M 65M 814M 8% /mnt/hda2 > > Note that: > 1) /dev/hda2 is smaller than it should be. > 2) /dev/hda3 could not be m