[ale] 20 gig install problem

[James Kinney]

Select neither. LBA is handled all in the bios. Append is used to send
additional tweaks and info to the kernel during bootup. It is ofte used if
the disk geometry is different from what the bios reports it to be. Which
in this case, after using the Maxtor bios stuff, is probably a problem.
Maxtor, and Seagate for a while, had "drivers" that were installed to
emulate LBA mode for motherboards that didn't support it. This causes
problem when the bios does support LBA. It results in 2 translations of
disk geometry and the second one is wrong. :(

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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:

> RH does not ask anything about LBA.  Regarding the setup paramers for LILO, I can not remember if the "linear" option is a check box or an "append" statement...
> 
> Does anyone remember what I should enter here?
> 
> John
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Neste [mailto:lesneste at atlnewmedia.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:45 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] 20 gig install problem
> 
> 
> I went through this with a Maxtor 15GB and RH 6.1.  LBA comes up twice:
> once in BIOS, and once as an installation option when loading RH (for 6.2,
> anyway).  Like Mr. Kinney said, be sure to use LBA.  The option with
> installation was to 'use linear'.
> 
> BTW, if you get a message that says 'verifying DMI pool' and then an
> infinite stream of 1's and/or 0's, it's a drive issue and has nothing to do
> with DMI. This is basically LILO telling you it can't find an image to boot
> from on the specified boot disk.  The resolution is to have correct BIOS
> setts in the first place.
> 
> 
> At 09:31 AM 3/5/2001 -0500, James Kinney wrote:
> >Which RedHat are you installing? Lilo hasn't cared about 1024 cylinders
> >for a while. Maxtor EZBios should be avoided. Make sure you have LBA mode
> >turned ON in the bios.
> >
> >James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
> >President and COO      \          one Linux user         /
> >Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
> >770-493-8244             \.___________________________./
> >
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