From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:19:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:18:53 -0500 Received: from rcum.uni-mb.si ([164.8.2.10]:42770 "EHLO rcum.uni-mb.si") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:18:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:18:30 +0100 From: David Balazic Subject: Disk geometry changed after running linux To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <3A633EF6.44E5A2C@uni-mb.si> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I encountered a weird problem. My HW : MSI K7T Pro2 motherboard ( VIA KT133 chipset , VT82C686A south bridge ) primary master IDE : Quantum Fireball lct20 , ATA-100 , 20 GB secondary master : Teac CD532E-B AWARD BIOS settings : PM : type : AUTO , Access mode : AUTO SM : type : AUTO , Access mode : AUTO PS/SS: NONE/NONE PM disk was set to LBA access mode on each boot. I had one primary and one logical NTFS partition. Then I installed linux ( "some" beta version , kernel is some recent 2.4.0-testXX ) I didn't install any LILO boot sectors , but created a boot-floppy. After the installation the disk ( win2000 ) would not boot. It reports : Read error on disk. Press ctrl+alt+del to reboot. If I run linux ( it work OK from the boot floppy ), it reports the geometry as 3xxxx/??/??. Thirty thousand and some cylinders , H and S are probably 16/63 ( don't have it at hand ). It should be two thousand something and 255/63, I think. fdisk -l /dev/hda prints "Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary" messages for the NTFS partitions ( hda1 and hda5 ). The linux ones are OK. The problem is that now the BIOS sets Access mode to LARGE. I can workaround it by changing access mode in BIOS setup from AUTO to LBA, but I want to know what made BIOS to default to LARGE and how to fix it. -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill & Ted - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/