[6466] in RedHat Linux List
Re: "Install bootloader" and fdisk geometry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Wed Nov 27 13:51:26 1996
To: Jason <jason@scott.net>
Cc: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>, redhat-list@redhat.com,
rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:45:36 CST."
<Pine.LNX.3.91.961127124337.21782A-100000@koala.scott.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:49:31 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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>
>
> On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Rick Forrester wrote:
>
> > * For some reason your partitioning is getting fouled up on the issue
> > of Logical Block Addressing (LBA). The CHS of 2633/16/63 is a physical
> > structure, the 658/64/64 is an LBA structure. The last time I had this
> > problem was due to a recognition problem with a scsi controller.
> > (Buslogic 948 mistakenly identified as an Adaptec 1542). There are
> > other problems, including faulty versions of fdisk that can cause this.
> > Suggest you do a bit of checking on the version of fdisk you're using.
> >
> > Did you use the DOS fdisk to create all partitions by any chance?
> >
>
> No, I did all the partitioning in the RH install program.
>
> jason
Did you also set the partitions for Win95 from within RH?
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