Kernel panic on new Debian 6.01 install

[Thomas Milne]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 06:59:33PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> Would that be reflected in the boot process? The reason I ask is that
>> during boot, the BIOS detects a '500 GB' hd. Would it show that if the
>> controllers were limited as you describe?
>
> The BIOS may have such a limit and still show the right size of drive,
> since the drive size read call hasn't changed, but the way to use that
> capacity has.  You ask for disk size, and it returns a 32bit value.
> But if you only have a 28bit disk interface to request blocks by LBA,
> you can't use 32bits worth of sectors.  It was only when disks went over
> 2TB that they had to invent a new disk capacity read command that uses
> a bigger number.  No one ever said PCs made sense. :)
>
> Certainly a P3 machine is old enough that it very well could be limited
> to LBA28.
>

Thanks for the info :)

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