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Re: install problem



Hi,
	You should use the "ramdisk" option during the installation. The 
"boot-disk" tells u the arguments u should use, (check your hd 
configuration for exactly how many heads, sectors, cylinders etc. you have)

On Sun, 12 May 1996, 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 ?
> 
> Meirzadeh Moshe                             | Phone: (972)-8-273387
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