Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
...had a similar problem with an ICL laptop that was used as standard at the time by Sun. You couldn't install any disk larger than 5GB. It just wouldn't see it. Maybe you're a year or 2 up on that one, and it sees it but won't let you play with it?http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Armada/us/download/8412.html
BIOS was already latest. I nulled the start of the disk to make sure, then had compaq's diagnostics install themselves and a new partition table. I'm not totally sure there isn't some kind of disk geometry problem. Still no DMA, which works fine on a 5GB disk. The real killer was that the 16GB partition shows no problems with reiserfsck, but on mounting (r/w or r/o) hangs the system with 100% CPU load, ever to finish. This also when booting a stand-alone rescue system from CD. Beats me, and I had to stop working on it. Things to try: create partition table with Linux after booting with nulled disk(!), different filesystem. If it's a boot loader problem - I can't install a loader on the laptop if I can't even mount the partition there.
The Linux system was installed by copying from the 5GB disk on a fast desktop computer (otherwise it'd be Christmas) and installing grub in a chroot with a modified devices.map.
:((
Volker
Steve
