My effort in documenting the partition check hangs have been a total waste of
my time!
Check Bug# 525
--- Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pixel,
>
> I tried to do a Cooker install with both the tree and target
> partitions on aa IBM ATA100 disk drive accessed through the Promise
> Mass Storage Device chip on my new motherboard as /dev/hdg.
>
> I was dismayed to discover that the current Cooker /images/hd/img
> cannot see /dev/hdg, making an install impossible. I expect the same
> to be true of those users using the Promise Mass Storage card (same
> chip) with older systems.
>
> An attempted install of 7.2 from CD will fail for the same reason,
> but it is corrected in the current set of 7.2 updates. My current
> 7.2 is running very happily from hdg8, placed there by a PM partition
> copy then chrooted edits to /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and a run
> of /sbin/lilo. These done from another partition copy of that 7.2
> partition to hda12 (hda is not on the mass storasge controller) and
> the same chroot process to make it bootable and operational before
> moving the fast disk from hdc to the Promise system as hdg8.
>
>
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> I think it inescapable that 7.2 and Cooker (both tree (floppy images,
> etc) and isos) are reissued supporting ATA100 drives, since there are
> so many already in the market and 7.2 is the current Mandrake Linux.
> MandrakrSoft plainly already has the technology.
>
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>
> Partition Magic 5.0 recognises these Mass Storage devices out of the
> box, but Windows 98 SE and tomsrtbt unfortunately do not. I mean
> that installing a Promise card or motherboard in my case caused
> Win98SE to totally lose all its device drivers and leave me in a real
> mess. Reinstalling Windows did not help. The Promise software on
> the Promise CD runs only under Windows - catch 22 <g>.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [au]
>
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