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Re: "Install bootloader" and fdisk geometry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason)
Wed Nov 27 14:37:43 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:35:47 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason <jason@scott.net>
To: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
cc: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>, redhat-list@redhat.com,
rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov
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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.
> >
> Did you also set the partitions for Win95 from within RH?
>
The first try I did. The second time I did not. I think this is more of
a problem with fdisk having the correct drive geometry.
jason
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