From: sevenup@netcom.com (Mark W. Moorcroft) Subject: Re: New version of the SCSI drivers Date: 30 Jul 1992 02:37:27 GMT
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>> The new bootimage won't even allow me to get far enough to run
>>efdisk and specify /dev/sd01. With the old bootimage I was able to
>>load the rootimage but efdisk would crash after I specify the above.
>>It would allow me to partition the disk (apparently?) but no drive
>>info was detected (sect,cyl,heads) so the disk was unusable anyway.
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>1. you need to patch the bootimage so that the bytes at offset 508 / 509
> are 0 so that it doesn't try mounting root from partition one
> of a "normal" hardisk. This was a mistake, a new image
> will be put out "some time" that fixes this. I think
> I'll have an all night debugging session with the HP700 port
> of BSD, so it won't be too soon.
Done (with pboot.exe)
>2. As far as partitioning with something under Linux :
>
> Use a DOS partitioning program. Some of the Linux
> partitioning programs are unhappy with not having the
> (unavailable) disk geometry.
>
> pfsdisk works, but note that shoelace will not work if the
> geometry in the partition table does not match what
> the BIOS says.
I have now tried the partitioning utilities from 3 seperate ftp sites,
and 2 under DOS. I have used the disk geometry info reported to DOS,
and also the actual figures. I am coming to the conclusion that until
Linux is equipped with the ability to detect my disk geometry I will
not be able to mkfs :-(
I would like to thank Drew Eckhardt for sending me direct mail
to address this issue. There is much conflicting info on configuring
SCSI systems at the various ftp sites and I have no idea how to
proceed ? (SCSI disk 1 = /dev/sdb, or /dev/sd1, or /dev/sd01, or ...)
system=
386/16 w/4 meg
1542b SCSI host
2 80 meg drives and one 60 meg tape (all SCSI)
Paradise plus 16 VGA board
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