The disk is in LBA mode. It has a primary dos partition (fat 16), and an
extended dos partition. In the extended dos partition there is a logical dos
drive (fat 32) and the linux partition.
I remember that fips doesn't work on extended partitions (or maybe I
remember wrong) but anyway I tried to work with fips on the fat16 primary
partition.
This is a second hand hard disk I bought from a game maniac. On my old hdd
of 3.2Gb nothing of these happened and I could install RedHat6.1.
----- Original Message -----
From: Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: boot sector again
> > Thanks for advices to everybody.
> > But I still have problems. Something was changed in the boot sector
because
> > now I can't use fips. Fips is generating a file and then stops.I can
use
> > the
> > disk. It is an usual disk of 4.3Gb. I don't know how much is true in
this
> > file. Because if it would be true I shouldn't even see this file.
> > The file errors.txt is the following:
>
> What mode is the disk set in? If the disk is over about 4 or 8GB (I forget
> if it's always 8 or if it's 4GB on some systems) then it should be in LBA
> mode in BIOS. The disk has to be set to the mode which will recognize the
> entire disk (LBA on large disks) before partition is done or else you
> won't get what you want... changing the mode changes the disk geometry and
> screws up partition tables if anything was set on the disk before the mode
> change, etc.
>
>
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