Disk Geometry Error

2003-06-30 Thread Systems Engineering
I am attempting an installation via the 5.1-R iso.  During the partitioning process, 
fdisk reports that the detected disk geometry is probably incorrect.  Subsequently, I 
attempt to specify the geometry reported by bios (CSH:19158,255,16).  This geometry 
is, however, rejected.  I have tried some variations, including the sane proposal 
that fdisk makes after  it reports that the detected disk geometry is invalid.  fdisk 
accepts them but this does not produce a bootable system (not surprising).

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Re: Disk Geometry Error

2003-06-30 Thread Richard Arends
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Systems Engineering wrote:

 I am attempting an installation via the 5.1-R iso.  During the
 partitioning process, fdisk reports that the detected disk geometry is
 probably incorrect.  Subsequently, I attempt to specify the geometry
 reported by bios (CSH:19158,255,16).  This geometry is, however,
 rejected.  I have tried some variations, including the sane proposal
 that fdisk makes after it reports that the detected disk geometry is
 invalid.  fdisk accepts them but this does not produce a bootable system
 (not surprising).

Let me guess. Is it limited to 2 GB? Youre disk probably has a jumper on
it with enables it above 2GB.

Regards,

Richard.


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