Hi all!
I have the same problem and i posted it to list but no one couldn't give me
the right answer. I had to recover some VERY old documentation about lilo
and ext2 to face this.
So, here we go!
The difference between bios params and linux reported params can be the
problem. Put your hdd params to auto and leave them this way! They'll work.
If you use lilo, pay attention that it want the boot partition to be in the
first 1024 cyls. If not, lilo fails to initiate after trying to get right
geometry. Also, you must have the swap partition in the first 1024 cyls
ENTIRELLY. On my system, RHLinux 62 reported something like <<kernel panic:
could not...>> .
If you do not use lilo you'll still have to put linux swap partition in the
first 1024 cyls.
I recommend PQMagic (MSDOS platform) 5 to do the job. It's very user
friendly and bug-free.
Silly question: why does not have Linux a create/move/resize partition
program like this most powerful PQMagic for DOS?
----- Original Message -----
From: Sangeeta Huria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:08 PM
Subject: IDE disk geometry
> Hi All,
>
> I have an IDE hard disk of capacity 17 GB with two partitions. One
partition
> of capacity 8GB has Windows installed on it. I am trying to install Linux
on
> the other partition.
> But, the disk geometry(no. of tracks, cylinders and sectors) reported by
> BIOS does not match the disk geometry reported at the time of LINUX
> installation.
> Can anyone please suggest what's going wrong and what needs to be done in
> this case.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sangeeta Huria
>
>
>
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