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nerrollus
11-01-2001, 01:30 AM
Has anyone run into problems installing Linux on certain hard drives? It lets me partition it, do all the setups, and after it finishes coping/installing everything onto the drive it pops up an error message saying the drive goes over 1024 ..... switch to LBA 32 ... etc ... I checked out my BIOS and it's setup for LBA32 and confirms it during startup. I tried using my 10 gig drive with the 40 gig slaved, but if I try to setup any kind of partion on that drive it says that. I finally unplugged it and installed everything onto the 10gig, rebooted and added the 40 back in, the mounted the drive on as a /home directory and it works fine. I'd really like to put everything on the 40 gig, and put my 10 back in my other PC.. Any ideas?
The Whizzard
11-01-2001, 02:32 AM
If you're getting 1024th cylinder errors, just make a 16MB /boot partition at the begining of the drive. Have LILO install itself onto the /boot partition. Ignore any future references to the 1024th cylinder error. It'll work. You should also set your BIOS to select the harddrive translation automaticaly.
nerrollus
11-01-2001, 02:41 AM
Well, I have a 50meg /boot already that lilo is on.. If I try to install onto that drive LILO pops up, I hit enter, and L? pops up in the upper left corner then my system hard locks. =/
Roy Smith
11-01-2001, 03:55 AM
i know that some if not all western digital drives have a "special" jumper setting that must be used if it's the only drive on a cable. the drive will behave erratically if not set to "single". could this be your problem?
Just take the jumper off the drive. Unless your 10 needs to be slaved to it. Taking the jumper off sets it to single drive.