Dual boot FC2T2 and WinXP?
Vincent
pros-n-cons at bak.rr.com
Sun Apr 4 03:28:39 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 17:39, Matias Feliciano wrote:
> $ man bootparam
> The 'hd=cyls,heads,sects[,wpcom[,irq]]' options
> These options are used to specify the physical geometry of the disk.
> Only the first three values are required. The cylinder/head/sectors
> values will be those used by fdisk. The write precompensation value is
> ignored for IDE disks. The IRQ value specified will be the IRQ used
> for the interface that the drive resides on, and is not really a drive
> specific parameter.
> [...]
> The 'hd=noprobe' option
> Do not probe for this drive. For example,
>
> hdb=noprobe hdb=1166,7,17
>
> would disable the probe, but still specify the drive geometry so that
> it would be registered as a valid block device, and hence usable.
>
>
> I don't know if this is useful but hope it's help. Try to set the same
> values as the BIOS.
Thanks but I cannot pull those numbers from the BIOS.
Under IDE devices it has a few things
LBA mode: supported
Block mode: 16 sectors
LBA/Large: [AUTO]
DMA: [AUTO]
etc.
But when I use F8 to get a somewhat verbose output i see it says
LBA is disabled for hda but hdb (linux) has it enabled. I'm just
plain confused. I'll install FC 1 tonight and pray it catches the
right values.
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