On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:44:34PM +0100, MAL wrote:
>
> Now, the solution. Running:
>
> setup --force-lba (hd2,0)
>
> Worked.
>
> I do not understand why, as every documentation I have read states that
> the compact flash should be dealt with in CHS mode. The BIOS is set to
> use CHS, Linu
I'm sorry for replying to my own post, but I have found a solution in a
way I did not expect to work, (or indeed understand why it does).
First i'd like to point out that I wrote two lines wrong in my previous
mail. These lines:
> root (hdc,0)
> setup (hdc)
were actually:
root (hd2,0)
setup (hd
I have a system with three hard disks, (hda, hdb and hdd), and a 128MB
compact flash disk, (hdc), with C/H/S 978/8/32, (detected as that by both
the BIOS and the kernel).
Using linux kernel 2.4.22, booting from hdd, I created a type 0x83
partition on the compact flash, using the full size of t
