From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) Subject: Re: Extended partition is not recongnized when boot from HD Date: 28 Aug 1992 14:09:47 GMT
In <1992Aug26.193610.24951@athena.cs.uga.edu> hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks) writes:
>In article <1992Aug26.144800.6995@cmcl2.nyu.edu> wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu (Wei Wu) writes:
...
>>However, if I boot the same image from hard disk, (shoelace installed)
>>at boot up, it stated that the primary partitions are OK, the logical
>>partition on IDE is recongnized, but for the SCSI disk, the primary
>>partitions are recongnized , the logical partitions on the extended
>>partitions are NOT recongnized, it gives error messages 'cann't read
>>partition table on device 804' or something like that. Then I cann't
>>access the extended partition on SCSI disk.
>>Note that when I boot from floppy everything is fine, I CAN access
>>the extended partition on the SCSI disk just fine.
...
>I have the same problem. I posted about my problem a couple of
>weeks ago, but the only responses I got were email messages from
>others (including Wei Wu) who are having the same problem. I ONLY
>have a SCSI drive, and I was using logical partitions for Linux /usr
>and swap. Everything's fine if I boot from floppy, but when I boot
>from HD, I get a "Unable to read partition table of device 0801"
>message.
>I sounds like it must be SCSI related. Perhaps some horrid thing
>that OS/2 does (yes, I'm guilty), maybe because of a HPFS logical
>partition? I'm also using the 1542B, a Fujitsu M2624FA, and 0.97.
I also two two SCSI disks, with extended partitions for OS/2, Windows and
Linux. I haven't got the thing booting Linux of the hd yet, so no comment
here.
BUT, I ran into the same problem when I tried adding the CD-ROM filesystem
to the kernel, it could no longer read any of my extended paritions.
I'm working with the authors of the CD-ROM stuff to find out exactly
what is is that breaks, but this makes it look more like a generic problem
with the SCSI drivers and extended partions.
-Chris
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