drive geometry problems
 

Wow, I have had a terrible week.

So I decide to install vector linux on my machine. During the installation, it finds out the kernel has been corrupted on the CD. Sucks to be me. So I try to install windows 2k. Installation fails. So I move onto EVERY OTHER LINUX DISTRO IN EXISTANCE. Redhat, madrake, slack, college, vector, peanut, damn small, yellowdog, jamd, debian, TSL, suse...all installations fail. Well somehow I seem to have messed up my drive geometry, or so jamd linux tells me.

I go into bios, but cant find anything on changing drive geometries. I searched under IDE peripherals options, all this stuff...maybe I missed it? It says it should be 19852/16/63 rather than whatever I had..

ANyway, what should I do about these drive problems? Oh, and I tried putting in a differnt HDD I had laying around, and it gave me the same errors. I think the problem is with the BIOS and not the actual hardware.

"ANyway, what should I do about these drive problems?"

Every BIOS is a little different. On my BIOS I can set each disk to either AUTODETECT or I can type in the disk geometry by hand. The disk parameters are on the first BIOS page under the date and time. If you still have the documentation that came with your disk drives then you can probably find the geometry in the documentation.

" I think the problem is with the BIOS and not the actual hardware."

Check the support web site for your BIOS and see if you can reinstall the BIOS software.

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