Just an interesting follow-up:
I replaced my Western Digital 80GB hard drive for 2 Seagate 80GB hard
drives, and no longer is LBA or no LBA an issue... Everything works
properly, no matter how I try to break it...
I have no idea why this is fixed now... I am using the same hardware and
the same
I'm posting this from my wife's computer...
I installed the A64 version of Fedora Core 3, Test 3... It was released
today...
Look how they have the default partitioning set up... It looks like they
have used LVM for some reason...
It works... Hmm...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mv]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hd
Ron Johnson wrote:
I wonder if this is something to also be mentioned on LKML?
Apparently this might be a known issue... I can barely understand any of
this:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=1Gjko-6Y1-5%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=4
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=
On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 17:06 -0400, Michael Vang wrote:
> Solved!
>
> But, it isn't pretty...
>
> This appears to be a K8V BIOS issue... In the BIOS, under the hard drive
> section, there is an option for LBA... The choices are "auto" and
> "disabled"... There is no option for "enabled"... Apparen
Solved!
But, it isn't pretty...
This appears to be a K8V BIOS issue... In the BIOS, under the hard drive
section, there is an option for LBA... The choices are "auto" and
"disabled"... There is no option for "enabled"... Apparently, there is
no way, in the BIOS, to force LBA on...
Every time you
Michael Vang wrote:
I'm starting to think this is an LBA issue...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&threadm=x73c77vlfc.fsf%40bonnet.wsrcc.com.lucky.openbsd.tech&rnum=9&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dk8v%2520lba%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg
Maybe this will help? I hope tha
Michael Vang wrote:
The 6GB worked perfectly, so it must have something to do with the drive
size, or maybe something like LILO's old 1024 cyinder limitation...
I'm starting to think this is an LBA issue...
When I boot, there is a black screen that the BIOS puts up, that lists
the hardware... On
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 01:07, Michael Vang wrote:
> I wonder if these bug reports match our issue?
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272625
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266049
I'd say the "4-digit kernel version problem" makes sense and could be
the cause h
I wonder if these bug reports match our issue?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272625
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266049
Mike (Xyzzy)
Michael Vang wrote:
I plan to try the 6GB disk out again tonight, just to make sure!
The 6GB worked perfectly, so it must have something to do with the drive
size, or maybe something like LILO's old 1024 cyinder limitation...
I thought it might be the fact that the first partition wasn't the boot
Eric Lacroix wrote:
Le mer 06/10/2004 à 18:33, Michael Vang a écrit :
I think it has something to do with the WD drive and the mobo... I have
a small 6GB drive that works perfectly, and it is a Maxtor...
Don't you think it is related to the size of the partition only ?
What make you think it's an
Michael Vang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have the exact same problem with my K8V (non-deluxe)...
dito.
I noticed that I had these problems when I was trying to boot from
another but the first partition on the harddisk. Also when trying to
change the root partition on the grub command line "
Hi Ryan,
Having a strange problem trying to install Debian AMD64 (downloaded
the latest CD). I run through the normal installation, partition my
drive (79.5MB ext3 /, 512MB swap), all goes well, I reboot and GRUB
hangs at "GRUB loading, please wait...".
I've checked /boot/grub/menu.lst and it look
Le mer 06/10/2004 à 18:33, Michael Vang a écrit :
> I think it has something to do with the WD drive and the mobo... I have
> a small 6GB drive that works perfectly, and it is a Maxtor...
Don't you think it is related to the size of the partition only ?
What make you think it's an HD/Mobo problem
Ryan Verner wrote:
Hi,
Having a strange problem trying to install Debian AMD64 (downloaded
the latest CD). I run through the normal installation, partition my
drive (79.5MB ext3 /, 512MB swap), all goes well, I reboot and GRUB
hangs at "GRUB loading, please wait...".
I've checked /boot/grub/menu.l
Hi,
Having a strange problem trying to install Debian AMD64 (downloaded
the latest CD). I run through the normal installation, partition my
drive (79.5MB ext3 /, 512MB swap), all goes well, I reboot and GRUB
hangs at "GRUB loading, please wait...".
I've checked /boot/grub/menu.lst and it looks f
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