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At 10:38 AM 11/30/95 -0500, Hsin-Yu Sidney Li wrote: >Hi, > >I am helping a colleague of mine install Linux on his PC. The PC in >question was "inherited" from our boss (who has decided to switch to a >Macintosh), and is a pentium machine from a no-name company. > >The problem we are having is that the hard disk (Western Digital model >AC2700, 700 MB) has on it a "Disk Manager" from a company called >On-track. This is code that is on the boot sector of the hard disk, >supposedly to get around the around the 1024 cylinder problem. (The >BIOS is AMIBIOS, which a AMIBIOS date of 07/25/94.) In any case, we >couldn't read the partition table, and after calling Western Digital >and On-track, we ended up fdisk'ing and formatting the hard disk. > Oh, wait a minute. Maybe I jumped the gun. When you ran FDISK and reformatted, you probably got rid of Ontrack, didn't you??? Hmmm. Let me try to redeem myself a bit, and please forgive if I'm suggesting things you have done. Here's what I think I did when installing an EIDE drive. Set the BIOS to be the true characteristics of the drive. (1416,16,63) When you boot Linux, give it a bootparm : ramdisk hda=1416,16,63 Run Linux fdisk : fdisk /dev/hda Do a display (p) - things will look messed maybe - this is OK Go into expert mode (x) Set cylinders = 708 set track = 32 Return to normal mode - (r) Do another display (p) - things should look normal Set up your Linux partitions and write it out. Good luck once again. Dan Murphy murph at vmark.com Vmark Software 74260.3322 at compuserve.com Westboro, MA
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