On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Izauddin Mohd Isa wrote:
> when I want to install and do mirror, both fdisk and disk druid report
> different number for both hard disk, one of the hard disk has 16383
> cylinder, 255 head and 63 sector, and the other one is 30585 cylinder,
> 16 head and 63 sector.
This is caused by LBA translation done by the BIOS. You can (at least) two
choices:
1) note down values reported for the 1st hard disk, and booting the
install disks, pass the values as kernel command line options for the
second hard disk (e.g. linux hdc=1234,12,34). This makes the kernel to use
the same values for both the hard disks. The draw back is that after
installation, you need to give the same kernel command line options to
boot to the system. Of course you can edit /etc/lilo.conf to make lilo
pass the right parameters to the kernel at every reboot.
2) Disable BIOS LBA for the 1st hard disk. Both drives should be detected
as identical during installation.
I have done 1 above, and it has worked for me. I have not tried 2, so it
may not work. At any rate, YMMV.
Hossein
P.S: I don't post to the list often, but every time I've done that
recently, I have been told I have "patronized" someone!!!! I don't know if
I am losing my sense of humor, or others have become less tolerent? At
any rate, hopefully I haven't offended anyone this time :-)
P.P.S: this dammnn spellll-checkker has stoppped workeeng, !@#$% :-)
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