I had similar problem when on using 4GB disk with 486DX2. When I had 2.1 GB disk
it didn't have any problem.
I changed standard BIOS setting to use "NORMAL" mode for hard disk and the problem
went away.
Now in linux boot messages, it doesn't show the disk size, just says found ATA
disk as "hda". On the bios display that comes before "LILO:" it shows 84MB disk,
but I don't care about it.
The way it worked is, I changed the disk mode so bios finds correct number of
cylinders and head and sectors. May not work in your case but just in case worth
trying...
shirish
Prakash Sastry wrote:
> even we faced the same problem out here though we could not figure out the
> problem, the solution what we found was to boot from the floppy. this
> worked for us.
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, gurinder wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> > I had redhat5.2 installed on 1.7Gb HDD. I installed
> > redhat6.0 over it and there was no error while installing. But when the OS
> > reboots all I see is series of " 01 01 01 ....." all over the screen. I
> > partitioned and retried installing twice but with the same result. I had
> > successfully intalled from the same Chip CD over some other HDD. Can anybody
> > point out the problem?
> > Thanks.
> > Gurinder
> >
> >
> >
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