Re: Error 18

2006-07-18 Thread Alexey Toptygin
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Jason Thomas wrote: The drive is too big for the PC. Use a smaller drive for /boot. So this is a BIOS bug? You are saying that the BIOS I have has the 504MiB limit? Can I work around this by creating a /boot partition in the first 1024 cylinders and lying to the BIOS ab

Re: grub 0.97 installation problem

2006-07-18 Thread Adam Lackorzynski
On Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 23:55:29 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am getting the error while compiling. > after "make check" > make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1 Next time, please also show the text before the error message so that one actually can see what's going wrong. Anyway, the test i

Re: Error 18

2006-07-18 Thread Jason Thomas
Yes that might work, but I've never tried it. On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:21:18PM +, Alexey Toptygin wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Jason Thomas wrote: > > >The drive is too big for the PC. Use a smaller drive for /boot. > > So this is a BIOS bug? You are saying that the BIOS I have has the 5

Re: Error 18

2006-07-18 Thread Jason Thomas
The drive is too big for the PC. Use a smaller drive for /boot. Or boot from some other media, floppy/cd/CF. On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 04:55:28AM +, Alexey Toptygin wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an older IDE drive, a Seagate ST51080A. It responds to probes as > CHS=2100/16/63 (both according to

RE: grub 0.97 installation problem

2006-07-18 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! What else happened? Why are you using that particular patch? What Linux distribution are you using? We need to know the answer to those questions before we can actually help you. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -Original Messag

grub 0.97 installation problem

2006-07-18 Thread vibhooti
Hi, I am getting the error while compiling. after "make check" make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/grub-0.97/stage2' make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/grub-0.97/stage2' make[1]: *** [check] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/ro

Error 18

2006-07-18 Thread Alexey Toptygin
Hi, I have an older IDE drive, a Seagate ST51080A. It responds to probes as CHS=2100/16/63 (both according to BIOS autodetection and to the linux kernel's /proc/ide/hda/gemoetry 'physical' line), but the drive sticker has 2096/16/63 written on it. badblocks -w reports that all 2100 cylinders