Re: FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-05-14 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
This was a known bug in a version of cfdisk. If you open a shell during the installation process and run fdisk manually instead, you can partition the drive such that the "can't seek" problem does not occur. This problem has only be reported in drives >2GB, AFAIK. Note that the manual proced

FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-05-14 Thread Robert W. Buster
Bus Master IDE Controller The disk drive is a Maxtor Model 85120AP: 5.1 Gig, 9924 cylinder, 16 head, 63 sector This system boots and runs Win95 with no problem. During the initial Linux boot all appears to progress well up to the Partition a Hard Disk step. I then get "FATAL ERROR: Cannot