From: chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) Subject: Re: Extended partition is not recongnized when boot from HD Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 07:46:17 GMT
In article <1992Aug26.144800.6995@cmcl2.nyu.edu> wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu (Wei Wu) writes:
>
>My problem is this. When I boot Linux from floppy, everything is OK.
>In the boot up message, it stated that the primary and all the logical
>partitions are recongnized.
>
>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 had the same problem w/ extended partitions on SCSI disk not
recognized when booted from hard disk. However, I found that if the
bootimage is built w/o stripping out the symbol table (by commenting
out the "strip ..." statement in the Makefile), the extended partition
on SCSI disk will be recognized when booting from a hard disk. Note
that I did not have Linux in the extended partitions (only DOS and
OS/2) but the locations of the extended partitions were identified
after I rebuilt 0.97 boot image w/o stripping out the symbol table.