[ltp] New bios stops rh61

[Joseph Yoon]

The same thing happens on the 770X (8GB HDD). I installed the latest BIOS and RH
6.0 can't get the disk geometry. Added hda=1058,240,63 and it works. Upgrading
to the latest kernel should also fix this.

joe bester wrote:
> 
> But then Jim Conley wrote this:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I saw an earlier post where someone had the latest bios version for tp600e
> > (inet28ww) and could not get redhat to recognize his hard drive partion.  It
> > seems that the same has happended to me.
> >
> > I had bios version inet24ww on this tp600e and loaded rh61 fine.  I upgraded
> > to inet28ww to try to fix a memory problem going from 64M --> 128M.
> > Immediately, rh61 does not read hda and my previously working fine machine
> > won't boot!
> >
> > Two questions...
> > 1.  Has anyone heard of a fix for this?
> 
> I worked around this problem by specifying the drive geometry on the kernel
> boot line. For my 10G disk, I added hda=1299,240,63 to the boot options
> at the lilo prompt.
> 
> Kernel 2.2.14 will correctly determine the drive geometry without having
> to do so.
> 
> joe
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