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Title: Thinkpad 600 hard drive is not recognized.

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Thinkpad 600 hard drive is not recognized.

Symptom:

Yast does not detect a hard drive when installing SuSE.

Reason:

Because of a problem in the BOIS, the geometry of large hard drives is not properly recognized.

Solution:

Start the installation from the CD (Note for Version 6.3, use the second CD). At the Boot prompt (boot:) type the following:

linux hda=1299,240,63

The above values represent the Cylinders/Heads/Sectors (CHS) for an 11 GB hard drive (these values are in LBA mode)

and they must be passed to your kernel, so that it can understand the geometry of your harddrive. These values must be passed to your kernel every time you boot the system.
YaST, the installation tool, should automatically add this line to the lilo configuration file.

/etc/lilo.conf

If this line does not appear in that file, then you will need to use YaST to add
it manually. From the main YaST screen, Choose, System Administration then select the submenu
Kernel and Boot Configuration and then select LILO Configuration In this screen you can add the line

linux hda=1299,240,63

To the Append-Line for Hardware parameter in the LILO configuration screen.

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Keywords: THINKPAD, HARDDRIVE, INSTALLATION, 600

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Categories: Hardware , Installation

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