Hi, Debian was installed from the CDROM and later on the 30GB ATA disk was added to the system. Then the system was restarted and the kernel message showed invalid geometry error. We had compiled 2.4.0 kernel that was released recently and 2.4.0 also gave the same error message.
The distribution was downloaded as ISO image from cdimage.debian.org and pressed on a CD. But apt sources.list was modified to update the Packages.gz from ftp.de.debian.org which makes it easy to install and maintain packages. If you need further details please let me know. -gnana Quoting Tiels, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How did you get it installed on your xp1000? CDrom installation? Where did > you get your distribution? > > THX > > Frank Tiels > > DIGITAL & Frank, the perfect combination!!! for Compaq > > .~. > /V\ > // \\ > /( )\ Linux - The OS to beat. > ^^-^^ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gnana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 8:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: ATA DISK: invalid geometry > > > Hi, > > I am running Debian 2.2R2 on XP1000. I added a new IBM ATA 30GB > disk and I have a problem with linux. > > /var/log/messages: > > [...] > > CY82C693U driver v0.34 99-13-12 Andreas S. Krebs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8000-0x8007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8008-0x800f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > hdc: Compaq CRD-8322B, ATAPI CDROM drive > hdd: , ATA DISK drive > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > hdd: 0 sectors (0 MB), CHS=0/0/0 > hdd: INVALID GEOMETRY: 0 PHYSICAL HEADS? > > [...] > > The default kernel 2.2.18pre21 and freshly baked 2.4.0 both have the > same problem. > > What is wrong? how to go about fixing this? Does anyone in the list > have had this problem before? > > -Gnana > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
