On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:14 am, Robert Golovniov wrote: > Hello Mandrake group, > > I have a problem with my harddrive. First of all, I cannot now boot > into Linux. I get an error message that kernel tries to kill init > (or something similar). When I try to reinstall the system, Mandrake > warns me of a wrong disk geometry (240 physical heads?) So, at the > moment, I cannot do a single thing with it. Do you have any ideas > how can I fix the problem?
Sounds like you are using 7.2 or earlier on a Western Digital Disk. There were geometry errors there induced by trying to be efficient in using the cylinders on the WD (which is a single-platter drive), but later kernels straightened the problem. If you are having the problem on a modern kernel and disk drive, we need a lot more information about the drive, the BIOS settings for it, other op systems on it, and so on. There is a kernel message which can force the cylinder, head and sector numbers as well, but let's get more information before you try that. Civileme
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