[ltp] RH 6.0 + 600E + 10GB Hard Drive

[Heiko Huettel]

Hi,

i have tried RH 6.2. It works out of the box ..... 
The only Thing to do is to append "mem= ...k" if you are over 64MB of
RAM. And some small Problems with sound, but after loading the cs4232
Module twice it works. 
The main Problem is that only Kernels above 2.2.14 recognize the Disk
correct. But working with RH 6.2 , everything works fine.
For Full APM Support you need to recompile your Kernel with the Options
mentioned on the Thinkpad Linux Site on www.pc.ibm.com

cu Heiko

On Mon, 29 May 2000, K. Holcomb wrote:

KH->>> HI.
KH->>> 
KH->>> I know this may have been raised before, but I have serious trouble putting 
KH->>> RedHat 6.0 on my 600E.
KH->>> 
KH->>> This 600E has a 10GB hard drive.
KH->>> I know you can append install hda=x,y,z
KH->>> x = Cyl, y =sec, z=heads.
KH->>> x = 16383
KH->>> y = 63
KH->>> z = 15
KH->>> I know that you can append the string to the boot prompt so that you can see 
KH->>> the hard drive.  This is what I did.
KH->>> 
KH->>> I flashed the bios with the latest version from IBM as of Thursday 25th May.
KH->>> Custom install (not workstation or server)
KH->>> then it asked what I wished to use, disk druid or fdisk,
KH->>> I picked Disk druid - and it came back with the error
KH->>> 'hda not found'  or something like that...
KH->>> I tried fdisk, same error.
KH->>> 
KH->>> What do I do know?
KH->>> 
KH->
KH->    I have experienced exactly the same thing on the same model of Thinkpad
KH->    with the same size disk (it's a Travelstar) only with RedHat 6.1.  
KH->    I had used Partition Magic 5.0 to try to set up the partitions so I was 
KH->    wondering whether it might have written a partition table that neither
KH->    Disk Druid nor fdisk could read, but perhaps PM is blameless.  I've 
KH->    also upgraded the BIOS to the latest, and I've tried giving it the disk
KH->    geometry both in the above form and in LBA format (as reported by
KH->    Partition Magic), all to no avail.  I've ordered RH 6.2 in the hope it
KH->    may magically work and I also downloaded, but haven't yet tried, a
KH->    program called "fixdisktable" which claims to fix up broken partition 
KH->    tables.  Does anybody know whether this is the right approach (newer RH, 
KH->    fixdisktable) or is there something else I should try?
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KH->

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