Re: Disk geometry changed after running linux

2001-01-15 Thread Guest section DW
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:54:47PM +0100, David Balazic wrote: > Is there a way to change the geometry from fdisk ? > I tried expert mode and 'set sectors' and 'set heads', > but after I exit fdisk with 'w' , it is unchanged. As you know, a disk does not have a geometry, but the location of a pa

Re: Disk geometry changed after running linux

2001-01-15 Thread David Balazic
Guest section DW wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:18:30PM +0100, David Balazic wrote: > > > Then I installed linux ( "some" beta version , kernel > > is some recent 2.4.0-testXX ) > > > > After the installation the disk ( win2000 ) would not boot. > > It reports : > > Read error on disk. >

Re: Disk geometry changed after running linux

2001-01-15 Thread Guest section DW
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:18:30PM +0100, David Balazic wrote: > Then I installed linux ( "some" beta version , kernel > is some recent 2.4.0-testXX ) > > After the installation the disk ( win2000 ) would not boot. > It reports : > Read error on disk. > Press ctrl+alt+del to reboot. > > If I ru

Disk geometry changed after running linux

2001-01-15 Thread David Balazic
I encountered a weird problem. My HW : MSI K7T Pro2 motherboard ( VIA KT133 chipset , VT82C686A south bridge ) primary master IDE : Quantum Fireball lct20 , ATA-100 , 20 GB secondary master : Teac CD532E-B AWARD BIOS settings : PM : type : AUTO , Access mode : AUTO SM : type : AUTO , Access mod