According to Josh Abrams: While burning my CPU.
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> Well,
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> I've run into a nice problem here.
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> I built 2.35 and installed it. I updated LILO (uh, oh).
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> Here's my fdisk table (255 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders)
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> Device
> /dev/hda1 1 1 13 104878 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda2 14 14 525 (the rest) 83 Linux native
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> No DOS partitions on a Fujitsu 4.3 Gb IDE drive.
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> I built 2.35 and installed it, previously at 2.30. I updated LILO (uh,
> oh).
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> When I rebooted the new kernel, The following information came up:
This looks like a classic case of, "Wrong Disk geometry".
Are you sure that 255 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders is the correct
setting and corrisponds with the disk documentation.?????
I suggest you check the bios setting is the same as the documentation, dont
let the bios set the geometry for you, use LBA manualy.
> Tried to reboot with my boot disk, but I get the same messages. I can't
> get to my hard drive now, and I got lotsa important stuff on there.
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> Suggestions on how to proceed? More info needed? I need to save the stuff
> on the drive and I'll do whatever it takes to fix it, even if I have to
> work with a binary/hex dump!
Use a resuce disk to "manualy mount" the disk, backup the important stuff
before changing anything..
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> It seems that I need to understand the boot process better, though.
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> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the list. Thanks.
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Regards Richard.
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Merry Xmas to all, and may all your troubles be small (ones).
