> I went thru the info provided on this page. According to that I should
> be doing a mapping of
> C/H/S C/H/S
> 8682/64/32 = 1106/255/53
>
> The above page also says that I should provide the new geometry to the
> kernel thru the lilo boot prompt. But what do I do if I am doing fresh
> install and the scsi disk is the only available disk on the system? For
> fresh install, I tried to give linux sda=1106,255,63 during the 'boot:'
> prompt, but that did not help.
>
> The above doc also says that BIOS gives the geometry figures before the
> kernel is booted. Is it possible to change the geometry in the BIOS
> itself?
The difference in that document and what you're trying to do is
that you're using a SCSI card, which provides its own bios to control the
drives. When you use IDE, that's on the motherboard, but not SCSI. It
should still work to pass the parameters on the lilo boot line, though.
What does it do when you try it? And have you checked in fdisk during the
install to see if the geometry is correct then?
Matt
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