> Not really. The kernel doesn't use C/H/S translation. It can badly > confuse fdisk. And impact interoperability with other operating systems. > But in a pure Linux Environment you are fine. There is a field that gives the > linear size of each partition, so the partition tables really don't care. > > Anyway to rule out memory run memtest86. And see if anything shows up. If my ram was faulty I would also have problems using the original bios ? Anyway , I'll run this today ...
> You aren't running 2.4.19-prexxx or 2.5.xxx where they have been playing > with the IDE driver have you? I use the kernel 2.4.8-26 with gcc 2.96 Should I move to another version ?
