On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:34, Joe Braddock wrote: > Is it possible that the size is too large for your bios? Most of the > large WD drives come with floppy to install ez-bios or something like > that on the drive to overwrite the system's drive table.
Which is a rather horrid solution, unless you're being threatened with a gun to your head. The best way is a hardware system board bios update downloadable from the net that is newer than what you have. Most boards these days that are not ancient history can be flashed with a newer bios from the manufacturer that solves just these types of problems. Even ones older than that can be updated; I still have a ROM programmer card here which plugs into an ISA slot and has a cable/socket for a range of different brand/types of ROM chips. I can load a new bios from a file or I can clone another bios chip to file and then load onto a new ROM chip. The best thing is to update the mobo bios if there is an update available on the net and the mobo is flashable. > Problem is, > if you're booting from CD-ROM, the system never get's the chance to > read the new drive table from the hard drive. If you think that may > be the problem, the solution I've used is to first boot from the hard > drive and once the new drive table loads, reboot (without powering > off) and put the CD in. The system usually doesn't clear out the new > drive table. > > Joeb > > Journal-601, buffer write failed > Kernel BUG at prints.c:334! > invalid operand: 0000 > cpu 0 > > Then a dump. I've taken a photo of it if the actual text is helpful. I've done > some reading that WD drives don't work well with Linux? Anybody have any > light to shed? > One question I'm wondering about right now is the make/model of the system board. ? LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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