I just did a major upgrade on my computer and installed 8.2 at the same
time. I replaced my motherboard, cpu, memory and power supply and I now
have everything running well, except that d@#n WD hard drive. I have of
course slowed it down to DMA33, but I have problems with the (c,h,s) count
on it and the partition boundaries.
Right now, I get the following reports about the (c,h,s) triple:
DiskDrake: (4865, 255, 63)
fdisk: (4865, 255, 63)
bios: (19158, 16, 255)
Not only do these not agree, but none of them are the same as fdisk
reported on the old motherboard:
fisk on old mobo: (77545, 16, 63)
I started with an empty hard drive on the old mobo and set up the
partitions inside Mandrake, so they are consistent with these last (c,h,s)
numbers.
Of course fdisk -l /dev/hde warns me now about inconsistent boundaries
[output below].
What should I do? Put the old (c,h,s) numbers into lilo.conf? I already
have lba32 set in lilo.conf, and linear addressing activated in the bios.
One thing I know is that the bios will not accept the (77545,16,63)
triplet.
Motherboard: MSI K7T266 Pro2. Bios: AMI version 3.4
Hard drive: WD400-BB (Yes, I know it's trash, I bought it before I knew)
Thanks for any help,
Narfi.
Below: fdisk output and /etc/lilo.conf
# fdisk -l /dev/hde
Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 64 511528+ 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1014, 15, 63) should be (1014, 254, 63)
/dev/hde2 64 3844 30359448 85 Linux extended
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hde5 64 96 255496+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hde6 96 478 3071848+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde7 478 1116 5119600+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde8 1116 2901 14335744+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde9 2901 3155 2047720+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde10 3155 3206 409216+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde11 3206 3844 5119600+ 83 Linux
# cat /etc/lilo.conf
default=linux
boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
ignore-table
disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="nobiospnp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi"
vga=788
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