[plug] Large HD install prob

[Mark Saxon]

A couple of weeks ago I tried to install linux on a new Fujitsu 13.6GB 
drive and had problems
Asked the group for any ideas but consensus seemed to be I should not 
have a problem.
Still have not had any luck and am going round in circles with it.
I have read the Large HD mini how to plenty.

I beginning to wonder if it might be some obscure hardware problem 
and/or incompatibility.

I'll chuck it into the ring again maybe some one can suggest 
something.

I have the drive configured as secondary master have checked the 
jumper on the drive (seems right) the drive is plugged into the second 
ide port.
Thats /dev/hdc linux, it will boot from here right?
Bios shows it as being      13665mb 26476c 16h  63s LBA

>From what I understand linux does not use the bios for figuring hard 
drive geometry?
Although I notice that if the the drive is set to normal in the bios 
rather than LBA diskdruid
reports the drive geometry differently.

I have tried installing from both RH 6.1 and Mandrake 7.0 cds both 
install okay. 
The auto configure sets them up with a 10mb /boot partition the rest / 
swap and /home

I have Lilo installed on hda1 with lilo configured to boot the image 
at hdc1 (this should work right) it has worked okay for drives under 
8GB.
 
but both brands fail to boot with the same message -kernel panic init 
not found-
Hope some one has some ideas


Mark