The kernel that the RH7.2 install boots does drive geometry
translation on the first IDE disk, when I'm trying to upgrade it:
hde: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdf: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdg: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdh: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.97
Partition check:
hde: [PTBL] [9345/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4
hdf: hdf1
hdg: hdg1 hdg2 hdg3
hdh: hdh1
This is wrong. I don't know where it's getting that partition table
from.
It should be reporting something like the following (which was
installed with 7.1, on a machine that is for all intents and purposes
identical). The partitioning is different on hdg. I am aware of
this, and this is intentional:
hde: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdf: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdg: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdh: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
hde: hde1 hde2 < hde5 >
hdf: hdf1
hdg: hdg1 hdg2 < hdg5 hdg6 >
hdh: hdh1
I don't know *why* it tries to do this. There is a perfectly good
partition table on hde that works with the geometry that is initially
detected.
I would like to know how to make the install stop doing that. There
appears to be a mechanism for specifiying the geometry explicitly to
the kernel. I don't think that would solve my problem, since it
appears to be a substitution for when the BIOS cannot detect the
geometry. This does not appear to be the problem.
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Gary Jackson
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