On Tue, 26 May 1998, Jonathan Hester wrote: : : Friends, a question: : : I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on my old IBM PS/1 Consultant : machine. During the installation procedure, when the time comes : to partition my hard drive, the operating system cannot find my : hard drive. I know the hard drive is operational because it boots : under DOS. I have seen that, under the list of special parameters : displayed by pressing <F4> at the boot: prompt, the following special : parameter is recommended for IBM PS/1's with IDE hard drives: : : hd=<cylinders>,<heads>,<sectors> : : Thus, I tried booting by typing the following at the boot: prompt - : : linux hd=934,16,254031 : : (Running Norton Disk Doctor on my hard drive provided me with these : values for no. of cylinders, no. of heads, and total no. of sectors.) : : However, the OS still cannot find my hard drive. : : Any suggestions??
Yes. First, as someone mentioned, your sector count is wrong ... you're providing total sectors, while the kernel wants sectors per track (NDD provides that info as well, I believe) However, your other problem is that you are taking the help text literally. Your parameter should read "hda=934,16,17" rather than "hd=..." I complained about this once after installing on a Valuepoint with two IDE drives, where I had to use "hda=..." and "hdb=..." to get it to work. I suppose I should file a bug or something. Incidentally, don't forget to place the same line as an append line in lilo.conf. The only thing I miss from Slackware was the ability to enter such append lines during install. Hope this helps, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
