On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 05:08:25PM +0200, stefan@net-tex.de wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got big trouble installing 1.6 on my Machine.
> It's a AMD K7 1333 with Abit KT7A Raid Borad and 512 MB RAM.
> I got 2 HDD, one 20GB drive which actually runs with 1.5.2 and another
> Western Digital with 60 GB, which should become my new 1.6 disk.
> 
> The drive is recognized by sysinst with a geometry of 1024/240/63

This is probably what the BIOS told him.

> (aren't these the classical 512MB boundaries?) and was set to the
> correct 28741/10/255 geom by me manually.

This is also a very strange geometry. For large disks the geometry
used by the bios is usually 1024/255/63.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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