Hello everybody. I have a minor problem concerning Debian 3.0 rev. 0. The last (1 or 2) sectors of some partitions can't be accessed. This isn't a hardware problem (tested using disk manufacterer tools or "dd if=/dev/hda"). The intriguing fact is that it happens when normally booting from HD, but not when booting from Debian installation CD-ROMs. The partitions where created with Debian installation fdisk. I checked the partition table with Ranish Partition Manager and everything was ok.
I suspect CHS and LBA translation problems can be involved. When running lilo it displays the following warning: "Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x81" If a boot from Debian CD-ROMs, lilo doesn't display this message. With a recompiled kernel (2.2.20) I continue to have the same problem. I think to remember that this didn't occurred with my previous distro (Red Hat 7.0). My machine in question is: Dell 4100 with latest BIOS revision. Pentium III 800 MHZ. Intel 815E chipset. Western Digital 20 GB HD. Samsung 4.2 GB HD. By the way, at work I have a machine running Red Hat 7.3 with the same problem. It is also a Dell machine (a Precision 220 workstation). Any suggestions? Thank you in advance. Javier Miqueleiz. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
