Strange, is the drve the only drive in your machine? Just curious. I just installed a 250 Gig drive in my wife's machine. Windows ME was unable to correctly partition the drive. I installed ML9.0 on the system Sliced the drive into 4 partitions via Mandrake and placed ML in partition 2. Then formatted other partitions as Windows partitions. Funny (as in ROFL) thing is that Windows ME is behaving itself and is unable to detect any difference in the Linux formatted partitions than if it had formatted them itself. Yes, it is dual boot.
Mandrake development team - give yourself a pat on the back! You deserve it! On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:00 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]
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