From: golden@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Edward Golden) Subject: How to boot a SCSI drive (w/ a WD7000 FASST) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 04:38:36 GMT
I am another who is quite new to linux, and is trying to get it to
work for me.
My system has a WD-7000 Fasst SCSI adapter in it. Thanks to the help
given by an expert here, I managed to convince 0.97 to see my adapter card.
(I had moved the BIOS chip adress to 0xC8000 to fit better in UMB for DOS.
0.97 couldn't find it there. I had to move it back to 0xCE0000) Now
I have two new concerns.
First, how do I make 0.97 boot completely from the hard disk? I'd like to
be able to boot without any floppies involved. Linux is on the second
partition of my drive (MS-Dos owning the first, primary partition). I have
done "mkfs" and partitioned it properly (I think, see below). Barring that,
I can't even make the boot floppy mount the drive as "/". (I "pboot" and
used "0302") The partition for linux is "/dev/sda2"... not "/dev/hda#".
The other concern is about the WD-7000 partitioning. The WD card comes
with some utilities (SSTSETUP, SSTBIO.SYS, etc) that are supposed to be used
for partitioning. Linux doesn't seem to be compatible with the partitions
created by these utilities. I had to use MSDOS 5.0 fdisk and "pfdisk" to
make the partitons. This makes the drive incompatable with the dos drivers.
Is there some way around this problem? Or can I leave it alone, trusting that
the system is stable partitioned this way? (Do I HAVE to use the SST
utilities?)
Again, I'd be grateful for any assistance. Thanx!
[Golden]