<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.
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.
<FONT SIZE=6>YOU DARE TO QUESTION THE GREAT LEON?!? HA!</font>
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">
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.
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.
ACK! Perhaps, I'm not psychic!
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?
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.
I like it as is !
Leave it !
Maybe Leon the Great just needs a little more meditation and a little less work)
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oops, another brain fart!
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