On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Tobias Weingartner <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Friday, July 30, Fabrice Dubois wrote: > > > > Because I have 3 Sata HDs, and 2 SAS HDs, so in total 5 HDs. > > > > I have had the fdisk problem only on the 2 SAS HDs, not on the Sata that > I > > use for OS installs. > > So what do you use for OS install? One Sata HD (10.000 rpm) and 2 SAS (15.000 rpm). > Here you imply you use the Sata (which > work). There is no more problems. I've just ignored CHS and proceeded with installation. > The problem is one of boot ordering (in the bios and your raid card), > and the fact that you're just putting whatever value you want into the > partitioning. Those values are *NOT* simply there for you to put in > whatever > you want. Either take the defaults, or know what you're doing before you > start mucking with things. > I am writing now on the amd64 installed on one SAS, so it is working :-) Hopefully Kenneth R Westerback helped me yesterday. The FAQ changed from last 4.5 about that part of fdisk and CHS. I was not aware nor I imagined such a change would occur. So from now on, I would just ignore CHS. > -Toby. > Thank you Toby, Fabrice
