passing real geometry of hard disk to Linux

[Parameshwara Bhat]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:28:20 -0500, Robert L Cochran  
<cochranb at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> Well, what is your motherboard name and version and your BIOS version?  
> Your present motherboard and CPU must be extremely old by today's  
> standards.

Yes, old but serving my needs. BIOS upgrade not available.
>
> What version of Fedora Core are you trying to install?

FC1, FC2 Both I have tried with exactly similar results
>
> Check to see if there are BIOS updates available to you. Update your  
> BIOS first. Then install Fedora.
>
> If you can afford it, a better option might be to replace the  
> motherboard, CPU, and memory.

I have other options. Only thing is , other distros of linux -  
suse,knoppix - at the same kernel level are working with the same  
configuration.

It is more a question of curiosity and technology

Thank you,

Parameshwara Bhat
>
> Bob Cochran
> Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
>
>
> Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> ( This was posted earlier. but I believe was not seen by the list. )
>>
>> I want to pass on the real geometry of my new hard disk to linux kernel  
>> at  a new
>> (Fedora) installation boot time. How is it done ? There must be a way  
>> as  other Linuses do it.
>>
>> I have attached a new 40 GB hard-disk to IDE0 bus as slave. My BIOS from
>> 1999 has a limitation ( so it appears ) and unless I put a jumper for  
>> 33.2
>> GB limiting, hangs at boot time. But SUSE and Knoppix both have the
>> smartness to understand this and provide full capacity of 38.2 GB
>> ( 4865,255,63 CHS), GRUB also has no problem once LBA mode is set. I am
>> trying to reinstall my Fedora on a larger partition of this new drive.
>> Partitions are created using Qtparted in knoppix and Windows xp and
>> knoppix already reside on the disk. Anaconda only sees capacity at what
>> BIOS gives it (4111,255,63 CHS ),  thinks disk partitions are beyond the
>> disk ( ! )  and wants to reinitialise the Disk . I tried passing "linux
>> hdb=4865,255,63" at  "boot : " which is ignored.
>>
>> Thanking in advance,
>>
>> Parameshwara Bhat
>
>
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