Re: Unidentified subject!
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Jonathan Hester wrote:
:
: Friends, a question:
:
: I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on my old IBM PS/1 Consultant
: machine. During the installation procedure, when the time comes
: to partition my hard drive, the operating system cannot find my
: hard drive. I know the hard drive is operational because it boots
: under DOS. I have seen that, under the list of special parameters
: displayed by pressing <F4> at the boot: prompt, the following special
: parameter is recommended for IBM PS/1's with IDE hard drives:
:
: hd=<cylinders>,<heads>,<sectors>
:
: Thus, I tried booting by typing the following at the boot: prompt -
:
: linux hd=934,16,254031
:
: (Running Norton Disk Doctor on my hard drive provided me with these
: values for no. of cylinders, no. of heads, and total no. of sectors.)
:
: However, the OS still cannot find my hard drive.
:
: Any suggestions??
Yes. First, as someone mentioned, your sector count is wrong ... you're
providing total sectors, while the kernel wants sectors per track (NDD
provides that info as well, I believe)
However, your other problem is that you are taking the help text
literally. Your parameter should read "hda=934,16,17" rather than
"hd=..." I complained about this once after installing on a Valuepoint
with two IDE drives, where I had to use "hda=..." and "hdb=..." to get
it to work. I suppose I should file a bug or something.
Incidentally, don't forget to place the same line as an append line in
lilo.conf. The only thing I miss from Slackware was the ability to
enter such append lines during install.
Hope this helps,
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