U5 running 2.6 with a 20GB hard drive issue.

From: Truax, Bruce (COMFIN, VFS, Consultant) (bruce.truax_at_ge.com)
Date: 12/23/03

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    Hello Sunmanagers,

    I have an Ultra 5 - 400MHz, 256MB, 20GB Seagate ST320011A hard drive - and I
    am trying to load 2.6 5/98. I keep getting a bad label error. The label
    reports one amount (the correct one) of cylinders and the disk reports a
    smaller amount. 2.6 tries to install only to fail mounting the file system
    upon reboot. I believe that 2.6 cannot read the geometry of this particular
    disk. I have found a patch for the disk at Tadpole but it is an OS package. Is
    there any other workaround for this as a prepatch?

    I will summarize

    Thank you all in advance ...

    Btw, upgrading the OS is not an option at this time.
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