User login hangs system

[Bill Davidson]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:44:38 -0800
Aaron Grewell <agrewell at uwb.edu> wrote:

> >
> > Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for
> > device 0x81    Kernel: 62749 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
> >       BIOS: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
> >
> > Lilo still finishes and I'm still able to boot into my gentoo and
> > libranet system.
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> Did you repartition before installing Gentoo?  It shouldn't matter,
> but if your old partition table from the previous OS install used a
> different drive geometry (due to changes in BIOS or kernel) than the
> new one you would have strange behaviour.  I have had this happen once
> with a drive I transplanted from an ancient machine to a new one
> without repartitioning.  That's not what the error indicates, but it
> might be worth looking
> into.

Yeah, I did repartition. Libranet was taking up the whole thing (100GB),
but I don't need that much space for 1 OS, and I felt the need to
tinker.

Bill