According to Tom Zych: While burning my CPU.
>
> Josh Abrams:
> <kernel panic>
>
> Richard Adams:
> > 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.?????
>
> FWIW, I've noticed that on my box (with a Western Digital AC32100 2GB IDE),
> the BIOS and Linux fdisk report different things. BIOS says (in setup):
>
> Pri Master: User, 4092 Cyl, 16 Hd, 65535 WP, 63 Sec, 2014 MB
> LBA/Large Mode is on.
>
> fdisk says 1023 cylinders and 64 heads.
What does the documentaition say for the disk itself.?
Anyway if your disk is working properly leave it alone, changeing paraemters
now will make the disk inaccessable.
You could have problems with LILO tho' if the geometry is different.
Why break something which works...
In Josh Abrams case i would take a guess and say his backup battery is low
and his defaults were lost, at bootime his bios set the drive via the
autodetect funtion to something other that it was set to previously, causing
his problem.
>
> HTH.
>
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Merry Xmas to all, and may all your troubles be small (ones).
