hi,
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:00:39PM -0500, Matt Housh [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > 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?
During installation, I checked the CHS in fdisk. It was 8682/64/32. I
changed it to 1106/255/53 and created 3 partitions. 1st one spanning
from 1st to 128th cylinder, 2nd from 129th to 256th and 3rd from 257th
to 1106th cylinder. I changed the system ID of the 2nd partition from
83(Linux native) to 82(Linux swap). Then I mounted gave the mount point
of the 1st partition as /boot and mount point of 3rd partition as '/'.
Now everything works fine.
Thanks everybody !
Regards,
Raju
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