On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 17:06 -0400, Michael Vang wrote: > Solved! > > But, it isn't pretty... > > This appears to be a K8V BIOS issue... In the BIOS, under the hard drive > section, there is an option for LBA... The choices are "auto" and > "disabled"... There is no option for "enabled"... Apparently, there is > no way, in the BIOS, to force LBA on... > > Every time you boot the BIOS looks to see if the drive is formatted with > LBA enabled... If it is, LBA is turned on... If not, it is turned off... > You can view this at the second black boot screen, which lists all the > properties of the system... The screen where it asks you to hit <ESC> to > boot... > > So, check this out: > > -> Zero MBR (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1) and then > reboot... LBA is on... > > -> Boot random Linux ISO... Using previously cleared MBR, make a > partition table and then reboot... LBA is off... > > -> Boot Windows 98 floppy... Use floppy to write a new MBR (fdisk /mbr) > and then reboot... LBA is on... > > What have we learned? Somehow, the Linux way of writing the partition > table is messing things up... So now what do we do? > > -> Boot random Linux ISO... Using existing Windows MBR, make a new > partition... Format partition however you want and then reboot... LBA is > on... > > Observe: > > With no LBA: [snip] > > Note there is an option in the installer for Debian to write a whole new > MBR... I think this option also causes this error... I wonder if this is something to also be mentioned on LKML? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B Why do so few (American) parents teach manners to their Children anymore?
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