The penguin is flexible. Just pass the disk geometry to the kernel, e.g.,
hda=3184,16,63 as kernel parameters. I love it. Another oldie saved
from the scrap heap.
Thanx,
Jeffrey
Quoting IEEE alias
I am trying to put SuSE 7.1 on an old Gateway2000 4DX2-50V (Phoenix BIOS) with a Western Digital Caviar AC21600 drive. This is physically a 3148/16/63 drive that the BIOS translates to 787/64/63 geometry. I have install SuSE Linux with a half dozen different configurations of LILO. Most get as far as LILO-, a few as far as L 40 40 40 ...
The hard drive manual has a section on Unix installation. It says Unix doesn't agree with translating BIOSes. The instructions on how to turn off translation seem to have some typoes or missing pieces.
All include geometry errors as possible causes. Anybody have any experience or ideas?