mattjackets
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Posted: Oct. 31 2004,23:18 |
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hi all, I have a problem....
when i boot dsl from the cd with "dsl dma" fdisk -l reports my proper drive geometry, and i can create partitions and run the hd install scripts. mkliloboot reports an error about not reading /proc/partitions (even though it exists.)
the script reports success, and it can boot...to a point.
the boot fails with a kernel panic, and the line above the panic is:
VFS: bogus logical sector size 0
when I boot dsl without dma from the cd; fdisk -l reports completely wrong disk geometry, and that there is no partition table. if one is created, writing hangs the entire machine.
so.....does anyone have any ideas? i think setting up lilo to boot the kernel with the dma parameter will work, but i can't figure that one out.....
thanks,
+matt
UPDATE:
I thought I'd mention a fe wthings i've tried:
+setting the geometry manually at the boot: prompt
+writing zeros to the begining and end of the drive.
setting the geometry manuallly did make fdisk report the correct geometry, but it still crashed when trying to write the table
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