manually entering drive geometry

artofluke · 12-07-2003, 05:36 PM

I have been having trouble installing slackware, (actually ANY OS), due to BIOS incorrectly configuring my drive geometry. When I run fdisk during installation in 9.1, it tells me that there are 4083 cylenders, and installation always fails. The actual geometry is only 1023 cylenders!

So then what I tried was, at the boot prompt, typing:

bare.i hda=1023,286,63

Those are the correct numbers. But then when I fdisk, it STILL says that my drive has 4083 cylenders...What could be wrong?

Azmeen · 12-08-2003, 02:06 AM

Have you tried changing the jumper pins for your IDE devices to set them to proper MASTER or SLAVE settings.

Try to avoid using CABLE SELECT on all devices.