Hi On Saturday 15 May 2004 02:40, Thom Nuzum wrote:
Hard disk geometry of 16 heads seems like it may be a major problem with the 2.6 kernel. Bad for dual booters.
I wouldn't put it that way. We do have several reports from customers who can't boot into WinXP anymore after installing 9.1. And so far all of these cases have one thing in common: the hard disk geometry is reported to be one with 16 heads. It's also true that this appears to be specific to using a 2.6 kernel. But other than that we don't know (yet). I don't think, however, that it can be deduced from this that in general hard disk geometry of 16 heads together with kernel 2.6 are a general probelm (for fual booting into WinXP at least). Anyway: for those that recognise this problem: the only "cure" that we have found so far is to change the BIOS setting to access the hard disk in LBA mode explicitly (rather then "auto" or similar). Unfortunately not all BIOS versions do offer such an option. Obviously we will document the solution as soon as we have one (in the support data base). If anyone can contribute to a solution on this topic, please e-mail me directly. It's hard for us to tacle this problem because we haven't got a machine where we could reproduce this. Greetings from Bremen hartmut