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
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
