[ltp] New bios stops rh61

[joe bester]

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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