On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:48:24 -0400, Mario Gzuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 14:19 +0200 schrieb Juan Jose Pablos: >> Mario Gzuk escribió: >> > Am Mittwoch, den 22.08.2007, 20:06 +0200 schrieb Juan Jose Pablos: >> >> any thoughts? >> > >> > Hi, >> > what is the output of the edd-module? This should be a message during >> > the boot process which tells you the number of the sektors/heads from >> > your hard disk. >> both cases (1.6.22 and 1.8.8) are giving the same information: >> >> 255 heads and 63 sectors > > Just take a look into the fat partition if there is the same count for > the heads in byte 27/28. You can do that in the following way: > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/tmp/heads.bb bs=1 skip=26 count=2 > hexdump -C /tmp/heads.bb > > If the ntldr is realy in the fat partition then it might be that the > boot code from the fatpartition get an other head-count for that.... > So maybe you can provide more information about the system? > * Chipset (lspci -vvv might be helpful) > * Harddisk (Type sata/ide/scsi?) > * Biossettings if this is a sata system > > It is also possible that the edd module returns after the first time 255 > heads and after crating the partitions (reboot again into the linux-env) > another value.... We had this a long time ago, but I cant remember the > systems... > > greetz mario > Hi, Sorry to jump into the middle of this, but what happens if you manually create a partition starting at 1 and ending at 4GB mkpart primary fat32 1 4GB Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
