Hi,
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Les Hedrington wrote:
> Has anyone had a problem where Linux crashes because, it can not read
> the Hard Drive.
>
> I have a Maxtor 4.3, Split up in to 2gig, 1.3 Meg, and the 1.3 meg
> Swap, and the rest for Linux.
>
> I can install the 5.3 Office version, however whenever I try to boot, the
> system crashes saying that it can not read /dev/hda.
Could you please post the _exact_ error message? That would be very
helpful. Also, how did you set up you hard disk in the BIOS? It should be
handled via "LBA".
> At this time, I think that I have to do a low level reform for the
> entire drive, which means=get another HD). I think that it is because
> I have used the Fat32 FS or because, I have enabled Large Disk Support
> on the HD for windows.
That should't matter. Linux does not care about the other partitions.
> Either way, I have worked all weekend end and I have not been able to
> resolve this issue. I have tried Caldera, Slackware 96 and all of the
> distributions seems to be behaving the same way. Slackware actually
> booted up one time, but on the next boot the same problem.
>
> I am at a loss. I am thinking that I need to get a something like
> Partition-Magic or something like that in order to fix the Hard Drive.
> But, I thought that I should ask for opinons first
Please give some more details about your setup. Without further info, it's
hard to give you a hint.
Bye,
LenZ
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