Big-disk woes

From: Tom F. (furtom2001_at_india.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: 27 Jan 2005 02:23:14 -0800

I think my Asus A7A266 motherboard doesn't fully support my new 250GB
disk. I've been trying to install Fedora 3 on it.

Anaconda will partition the disk and copy software to the partitions,
but when it's time to boot, file systems can't be mounted.

I'm not at my computer now. I'll post the log files later if they are
needed, but the kernel complains about cylinders above a certain number
and says DMA mode won't be used to access them.

I tried installing SuSE 9.1 also and it went better: After install I
could boot, though with the same error messages, but couldn't mount
swap which is the second primary patron on the drive.

I tried setting up the disk as follows:
hdc1 /boot 1 gig ex2
hdc2 swap 1 gig
hdc3 / about 125 gig ex3
hdc4 /home about 123 gig ex3

I've flashed the motherboard to the latest bios. No joy.

I've heard there is some way to fix this problem manually when creating
partitions, but I can't find exact instructions. Any help would be
appreciated.
Tom F.

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