From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: How to boot a SCSI drive (w/ a WD7000 FASST) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:45:13 GMT
In article <1992Sep14.043836.11320@udel.edu> golden@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Edward Golden) writes:
> 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#".
Try 0802 - major 3 is the "normal" disk, 8 is the SCSI disk.
Install the master boot record of your choice, and either
LILO or Shoelace.
>
> 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
Maybe. Normally, you shouldn't *need* the drivers, since the card does
have a BIOS.
>the system is stable partitioned this way? (Do I HAVE to use the SST
>utilities?)
Probably not.
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