Finally got the software installed OK on the 4gig IDE drive. Figured out it's 523 cylinders not 524. BUT, my hard drive is still being "auto-detected" incorrectly when booting. LILO never worked correctly (since I'm Win2K + DOS already) so now I'm using loadlin and getting further. My hard drive is being detected as CHS (?) with 2193 cylinders and 255 heads (still like my 18gig IDE drive). So at the part when it gets to figuring out the hard drives, it figures out hdc ok, but then it stops on hdb saying: INVALID GEOMETRY: 255 Physical Heads? What do I do? What can I manually set where? I can come up fine with a boot disk and then booting the rescue disk off the CD, and then mounting /dev/hdb and looking at it so I can change config. files that way... Any help is much appreciated! -------------------------- Edward Baichtal edwardb@AirLink.com http://www.airlink.com
-----Original Message----- From: Edward Baichtal [mailto:edwardb@AirLink.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 11:34 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] 6.1 install process corrupting disk..?
Using the 6.1 Boot disk off the 6.1 CD Disc 1 since the boot disk that I got was hanging all the time. Went to configure my hard drive (/dev/hdb since /dev/hda is an LS-120 drive) and it reported that /dev/hdb was 2193 cylinders which was the same amount as my /dev/hdc drive (18gig drive). Instead I had already filled up the drive with a FAT32 parition that said it went to 524 cylinders (which now that I think about it, is probably wrong since it's a 4gig drive). It would let me say /dev/hdb could go to 2193 cylinders, but then it would report it being 18+gigs, like my other drive. (4gig is a Seagate slave on IDE0, and 18gig IBM is a Master on IDE1).
Anyway, I made two primary paritions along with a swap and there's a 500meg DOS partition that already exists on that drive for booting. Made a /boot at 20megs, swap 120megs, and the rest to cylinder 524 (3+gigs) being another primary partition. Formatted and installed fine but when I went to boot the parition fsck came up and said the disk was corrupt and it was finding stuff endlessly, rebooted and would halt on booting, ran setup again and now /dev/hdb does NOT show up as device. Ran repair, and tried to mount /dev/hdb and it said no such device! wtf!?!?!
Is there a bug in reporting cylinders in the 6.1 boot disk? Should I grab something else? I didn't spend the time last night, but I'm considering doing the partitions with Partition Magic and going from there to see if it's any smoother.
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