Re: 17.2 gb drive
>Don't you partitioned your HD on a computer, and move >it to another?
>(or activated LBA on one and not on the other?)
No, I partitioned using the Stormix linux installer, then poped the
debian CD into the SAME computer and re-booted. I just tried different
linux distro's till I found one that would appear to see the whole disk
an partition it.
>Huuu? Why such a big '/'????? (use fractionnal >installation: / +
>/usr + /home .....; in case of trouble, you'll only >loose a few
>information)
>You can 'lilo-jump' from partition to partition: I had >the same PB,
>so I put a lilo in the MBR, with a jump to /, then >another in /,
>jumping to extended partition (diff. <= 1024), then >another to other
>linux partition...... And it worked.
I know that many recommend using multiple partitions. But if you have
no idea about how large /usr, /home, need to be it's hard to guess how
many partitions and how large each should be. Also I think that the
idea of many partitons made sense when disks were smaller.
>Linux used bios *only* at boot time, then it use its >own setup; so if
>bios and linux settings do not agree at boot, there >might be some
>problems.
>Try:
>0)- Read *attentively* /usr/doc/lilo contents, it can >help
>1)- Add a line in /etc/lilo.conf: linear (after root >& boot
>declarations)
> Even if its not mandatory, it can't hurt.
>2)- Bios manual setup, according to what fdisk says >(in my [short]
> experience, fdisk is *always* right),$
>3)- If (2) don't work, then add a new line in lilo:
> append="hd=cyls,heads,sctrs", where CHS are the >numbers that
bios
> says.
So where does fdisk get it's idea of disk size and layout?
>Anyway, if you partitioned you're HD on a computer, >and installed it
on
>another, you could have troubled: I made the mystake >from a brand new
>PII-400 to an old 486-PCI-ISA: The 486 bios was unable >to handle a
>number
>of heads > 16. So I turned the both of them in LBA >mode and it
worked,
>but I was obliged to add 'linear' in /etc/lilo.conf >because without
>that
>line, the HD refused to boot directly (but was Ok with >a diskette
>boot).
Again the disk never left the computer. Also it does boot just fine
now, I'm worried that my partition layout id flawed and will eventually
fail.
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