Check with fdisk again. It looks as if you answered "245" instead of
"255" when you tried to set the number of heads with fdisk's expert mode.
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Laxman Buneti wrote:
>
> Hi Steven,
>
> I did the steps you suggested.After I reboot, "dmesg " commands outputs the
> following,
>
>
>/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> Linux version 2.4.2-2c1 (root@ripon-clued0) (gcc version 2.96 20000731
> (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)) #1 Fri Apr 20 10:36:09 CDT 2001
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 000000000fef0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000000000d000 @ 000000000fff3000 (ACPI data)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000003000 @ 000000000fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
> On node 0 totalpages: 65520
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone DMA has max 32 cached pages.
> ...
> UDMA(33)
> hdd: 225242955 sectors (115324 MB) w/8448KiB Cache, CHS=14593/245/63,
> UDMA(33)
> hdd: INVALID GEOMETRY: 245 PHYSICAL HEADS?
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
> hdc: [PTBL] [4865/255/63] hdc1
> ...
> hdd: 225242955 sectors (115324 MB) w/8448KiB Cache, CHS=14593/245/63,
> UDMA(33)
> hdd: INVALID GEOMETRY: 245 PHYSICAL HEADS?
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 00000028
> printing eip:
> c018a6d1
> pgd entry cb66a000: 0000000000000000
> pmd entry cb66a000: 0000000000000000
> ... pmd not present!
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c018a6d1>]
> EFLAGS: 00210212
> eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c02e052c edx: 00200212
> esi: 00001640 edi: c02e039c ebp: 00001000 esp: cb669ef4
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process magicdev (pid: 1305, stackpage=cb669000)
> Stack: 00000040 00000016 00000040 0000043c 00000001 c02e0520 00000310
> c018a771
> 00001640 00000001 c02e008c cf9e5060 cb373f80 c14d3e48 c018a83f
> c14b8220
> cf9e5060 c013af77 cf9e5060 cb373f80 cb373f80 cf9e5060 c14b9240
> c0133310
> Call Trace: [<c018a771>] [<c018a83f>] [<c013af77>] [<c0133310>]
> [<c013323d>] [<c013da0b>] [<c0133526>]
> [<c010901b>]
>
> Code: 8b 40 28 85 c0 74 04 57 ff d0 59 80 a7 ac 00 00 00 fb 8d 87
> ide-disk: hdd: Failed to register the driver with ide.c
> ...
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Steven Yellin
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