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Re: install problem
Moshe Meirzadeh wrote:
>
> Shalom.
> I'm trying to install Linux (InfoMafic) and getting the following
> messages at boot time:
> hd.c:ST506 interface disk with more than 16 heads detected
> probebly due to non standard sector translation.. giving up.
> (disk 0:cyl=525, sect=63, head=64)
> ...
> ....
> harddisk i/o error
> dev 0302, sector 0
> ...
> kernel panic:VFS: unable to mount root.
> ------
> The machine spec:
> packard bell, p100/16MB/IDE 1GB.
> First partition is dos (about 260MB)
> Second Linux (about 600MB)
> The rest is swap.
>
> Everything works fine under dos/windows with the same disk,
> and we run all the hw tests.
> It seems to me something wrong with linux but i DONT know what.
>
> Any clue ?
is Linux supposed to work on a packard?! i'll check their disk
specs tomorrow at work. never thought to try that. :)
Eran.
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