I can tell before I read past the first few lines of your message that you
didn't "read" the partitioning documentation for "large" drives before you
installed. :) If you had read that you would have seen that LILO can't
see past cylinder 1024 which is why you kernel is having a problem.
I'm scolding you tongue in cheek cause I did the same thing once.
anyway, you will want to make some modifications to the partitions you're
going to setup for an installation that will not give your kernel a fit
when you boot such a HUGE friggin drive. MAN! I wish mine was that
BIG! :)
So, here's the layout: (this is the bare minimum basic layout)
/boot = 15MB # this partition is where your kernel will boot from
/home = 5GB # this partition will contain all your data files and your
# home directory and the home dir's of any other users on
# the system
/ (root) = (...) #this partition can be as big as you want to make it
#since you've got 39GB's left however it should
#be at least 5GB in size
--------+
Now, if you want to install and use Grub as your boot loader instead of
LILO that's fine too. Grub doesn't mind big drives at all. You won't need
to make all these other partitions, HOWEVER, I would strongly advise that
you DO make a /home partition because in the event of something BAD
happening on your Linux system that you can't get figured out and the only
solution to the problem is a fresh install in the OS placing a partition
on the Hard drive defined as /home will keep your data files safe when you
format all the other partitions of the linux drive to do the install. I
fresh intall on newly formatted partitions takes a fraction of the time
that an install over top of a previous install takes. That's because the
installation program decides that it MUST read ever entry and analyze them
all in the RPM database. That can take quite a while.
But that's another story. For now, define your partitions in a similar
mannar as I've outlined here for you and you'll be booting happily into
Linux on your insanely lArge drive before you know it.
--
Mark
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Todd Marshall wrote:
> I can't seem to get Mandrake 7.1 running 2.2.16 to access my 45 gig IDE hard
> drive. I am willing to toast it if that's the key to my problem...
> currently I'm passing the following parameters to the kernel to try to get
> it to recognize this IBM Deskstar 45 gig at hde.
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda1
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append=" ide2=0xdc00,0xe000 ide3=0xe400,0xe800"
> read-only
>
> Unfortunately when the kernel looks at the partition table of the hard drive
> it gulps:
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS
> settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config
> Success
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS
> settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config
> Success
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev
> 98
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe
> irqs later
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS
> settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S
> 011, ATAPI CDROM drive
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead of
> ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of
> ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of
> ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xe000 on irq 11
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hpt366: assuming 33Mhz PCI bus
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x6f {
> DriveReady DeviceFault DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x6f {
> DriveStatusError UncorrectableError TrackZeroNotFound AddrMarkNotFound },
> LBAsect=258961263
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB
> Cache, CHS=89355/16/63
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hda: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache,
> (U)DMA
>
> ...
>
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: Partition check:
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde:hde: lost interrupt
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: status=0x7f {
> DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: error=0x7f {
> DriveStatusError UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound
> AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=260013951, sector=0
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: reset: master: error (0x61?)
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: lost interrupt
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: status=0x7f {
> DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: error=0x7f {
> DriveStatusError UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound
> AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=260013951, sector=0
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: reset: master: error (0x61?)
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: lost interrupt
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: status=0x7f {
> DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: error=0x7f {
> DriveStatusError UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound
> AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=260013951, sector=0
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:00 (hde),
> sector 0
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: autodetecting RAID arrays
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: autorun ...
> Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ... autorun DONE.
>
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