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> 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.

How have you set the HDD in the Bios ?

You could have problems if you has set the HDD to [Auto] , you will have to
set it to :
Type [User Type HDD]
Translation Method [LBA]

Some HDDs where having problems in FC2 in which the HDD was set to [Auto] ,
it screwed with the partition table , so perhaps it could be doing the same
thing with FC3 and large HDDs.


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