Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Dec 2000 00:23:02 +0900 | From | Ishikawa <> |
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I sent out a longish response a few minutes ago which explained the my problem was solved somehow!
One thing I missed explaining in my original post is the AMI BIOS on the GA-7IXE4 motherboard has a very spartan set of options.
For the geometry translation of ATA disk, only On/Off choice was available and according to help message On means LBA and Off is non-LBA (normail?). I let LBA on during my trials and errors.
AWARD BIOS would have shown none/auto/large/lba, etc. for the same choice.
Well, AMI BIOS seems to be pretty minor these days. I have seen it lately on my current motherboard as well as onthe low-price end machines from small vendors, inside VMware's virtual PC environment(!), but nowhere else. There could be some rough edges still around due to smaller user base.
I am glad I have been using SCSI disk. If it had not been for my 2.4.0-test12 on a scsi disk I moved from my old PC, I would not have been able to use linux successfully with Win98 partition on this motherboard for a couple of weeks.
I guess my motherboard is somewhat exceptional case where BIOSreports a geometry that didn't match the geometry used by popular OSes.
Again thank you everybody for helpful tips.
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