[ale] [OT] Samsung HDD

[Jordi S. Bunster]

Ok, I'm puzzled here. Neither LILO nor Grub work. LILO says Error 4x04 and 
Grub says Geom error. No kernel error messages when booting from CD, and 
the systems installs flawlessly. Even LILO (and Grub, for that matter) 
install ok.

The BIOS has two large access settings. Dos and Other. Same results. With a 
Win95 bootdisk, when on Other, fdisk crashes. When on DOS, when you format 
the drive, it goes ok, until it gets to Creating File Alloc Table, when it 
dies with 3%.

Samsung has a utility to test their HDDs. It passes all tests. Then it has 
another to "low-level format" Their HDDs. It crashes at 3rd track, with a 
Borland Turbo C++ 2.0 error message.

I took it out of a system of mine yesterday, that was dual-booting, with 
LILO. No problems at all.

I've tried NetBSD and FreeBSD also, both install flawlessly, neither boots. 
(silent at bootstrap time.)

So, connecting the fact that LILO, Grub and DOS (as well as the BSD 
bootloaders) all use the BIOS, could it be a problem not related to the 
drive? Could it be a BIOS problem? If so, I'm dead. It is an Unisys Aquanta 
CP, which doesn't even has a single page in Unisys web site.

Well, thanks in advance, maybe is a simple problem that is over my head.

 -- Jordi




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