Thanks for your hints. You are right, the Bios is pretty old (Award 4.51PG of 1995). "fdisk /info /tech" worked with the Freedos fdisk (not with the MS-DOS 6.22 or Win95/2 fdisk). Unfortunataly it reported slightly other values than the bios (620/127/63 vs. 622/128/63).
I tried both ways: 1) Letting parted write the mbr it figured out (same as bios) 2) Partitioning the disk with (first freedos, then Win95/2) fdisk as you described without mbr rewrite. In both cases I used the linux boot prompt with "unattended hda=622/128/63" and answered "continue/ignore" to the question about the different partitioning schemes. None of this worked for me. Is there something else I could try? - Jo > You can certainly learn it by booting to DOS and running > "fdisk /info > /tech". > > We normally determine the geometry automatically by asking the > Linux > EDD module, which has code to query the BIOS for this > information. > But if your BIOS is too old, then this does not work. > > The geometry is the cylinder/heads/sector count. You pass > these to > our Linux kernel by pressing Shift while booting (to get the > "boot:" > prompt), then typing: > > unattended hda=1024,240,63 > > ...or whatever the cylinder,head,sector values are. > > Note that DOS fdisk may be off by one in its display of the > head > and/or sector counts. It's a long story... > > If this is a one-off installation, you can use DOS fdisk to > create the > 4000M FAT32 partition, boot the Linux boot disk, and tell it > to leave > the existing partition table alone. > > - Pat > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
