User login hangs system

[Collins Richey]

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.
> _______________________________________________

Also I've gotten really bad results if I forgot to reboot after repartitioning (you are warned by fdisk to do so) before trying to make a fs.

--
Collins