really.....

[Fuz]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Leon will diagnosis what's wrong with a computer without even turning it on!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ok Leon...if that is your real name! What's wrong with my computer? I get a geometry mismatch error when I install lilo. It is a Seagate 2 gig Wide SCSI on an Adaptec 2940. The OS i'm using is Slackware Linux.

Fuz

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-Do we have any sort of plan?
-Ride `till we find them, then kill them all.

[att]

uh, oh, 16 hours and no response from leon.
come on leon dont let us down.
it look slike he's sweating on this one.

[sbp]

<FONT SIZE=6>YOU DARE TO QUESTION THE GREAT LEON?!? HA!</font>

[sbp]

Leon already knows about Fuz computer and is at this very moment consulting his psychic cards and friends!
<img src="http://www.rajasthanweb.com/turbans/images/turban.gif" alt="Leon">

[Leon]

Heh... Sorry for the delay. Been working the @#^$%#$#^ Graveyard shift here.

Adaptecs don't like being autoprobed. The cards don't know if that makes a difference. The cards don't have much experience with Slackware, but I know that with RedHat you had to pass kernel options to turn off autodetect. With the 7xxx series Adaptec adapters, you had to pass in this sequence:

aic7xxx=no_probe

The crystal ball doesn't know if that's the same for the Adaptec 2940, but you could give it a shot. http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Fuz]

O great Leon of the strawberry squishy clan, many thanks to you.

Except that it was a partition size problem, not a problem with the controller. It seems that linux wants the kernel located on the first 1024 cylinders of the hard drive for lilo to correctly use it. Who knew?

Fuz

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-Do we have any sort of plan?
-Ride `till we find them, then kill them all.

[Leon]

ACK! Perhaps, I'm not psychic! http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/frown.gif

Anyway, this Forum used to be something else, but it was dead, so sbp suggest this Psychic Forum.

So is there a particular forum you guys think we should change this to?

[Fuz]

I like it. Leave it how it is.

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-Do we have any sort of plan?
-Ride `till we find them, then kill them all.

[Bloodymess]

I like it as is !
Leave it !
Maybe Leon the Great just needs a little more meditation and a little less work :o)

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oops, another brain fart!