5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem

Don don at calis.blacksun.org
Wed Mar 31 08:15:26 PST 2004


> the very same happened to me with a maxtor hard drive
> and it happened to be a bad cable
>
> check jumper settings, cables, controlers etc
It wasn't a jumper problem as it happened with a number of hard disks. I
simply commented out the code in sysinstall that generated the error and
supplied the geometry through the geometry directive in install.cfg.

I was also calling diskPartitionEditor and diskPartitionWrite.

If I just called diskPartitionEditor and left the rest for install commit
most of the other problems I was having went away.

-Don


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