On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:00 pm, Wolf N. Paul wrote: > I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk > working on my Mdk 9.0 system. > > When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs > indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk > was virginal from the store, and now that I have created > a single large primary partition on it with Win2K. > > If I append "hdh=noprobe" to the boot prompt, I can > boot the system, but the drive is not accessible. > > If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the > drive just before the partition check, like so: > > "hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe" > > which corresponds to an example in the kernel source > Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing > happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec > sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web. > > The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference > at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter > of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted. > > Any hints? Any ideas? > > Regards, > > Wolf N. Paul > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you used the other install kernels alt0 alt1 alt2? type F1 at the splash screen and then at the boot prompt 'alt0' without the quotes. Also the alt1 and alt2--any may recognize the big disk. The install kernels are seriously stripped so that the image fits on a floppy. Civileme
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