Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> I use the N_5380.S kernel, it seems to be the only
> one that recognizes my SCSI.
Have you tried all the other possibilities?
"Close enough" may not be good enough.
BTW trying different kernels is *much* easier
when you use loadlin.exe to boot.
> I guess that rules me out regarding Basic Linux
> and other mini-Linuxes?
BasicLinux comes with a generic IDE kernel (zimage),
but it works happily with any kernel from the
Slackware 3.5 site. In your case, just download
../kernels/n_5380.s/zimage and substitute it for
the default zimage. Piece of cake.
> I have (had) three logical partitions: DOS, HPFS
> and ext2, in that order. Commands are
> mount -t msdos /dev/hdb5 /dose and
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb7 /lina
Hmmm... hdb is the slave drive on the primary IDE
controller. Are you sure that's the way your drive
is hooked up? I suggest you boot a copy of Linux and
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fdisk /dev/hdb
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Enter p (to view the partition table) and check
that your partitions are actually there.
> I guess I could use SYS to make the DOS partition
> bootable, but I want to combine that partition with
> that OS/2 Boot Manager partition of slightly > 1 MB,
> no longer being used for that purpose,
It seems to me that the only reliable way of doing
this is to delete both partitions and then create
the new partition. The following warning from the
fdisk manpage may be relevant:
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Some versions of MS-DOS create a first partition
which does not begin on a cylinder boundary, but on
sector 2 of the first cylinder. Partitions
beginning in cylinder 1 cannot begin on a cylinder
boundary, but this is unlikely to cause difficulty
unless you have OS/2 on your machine.
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> I managed to mkdosfs /dev/hda5 (formerly OS/2 boot
> partition,
Again from the fdisk manpage:
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For best results, you should always use an
OS-specific partition table program. For example,
you should make DOS partitions with the DOS FDISK
program and Linux partitions with the Linux fdisk
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I would go even further than this and recommend
you use the OS-specific partition table program
to _delete_ a partition. For example, I always
use DOS fdisk to delete DOS partitions and Linux
fdisk to delete Linux partitons.
Cheers,
Steven
