Stefan,
Make sure the BGM/FAT partition is less or equal 128 MB in size - the
logical sector size may not exceed the kernel page size of 4k.
Why this? Falcon has Tos 4.04 and allows than 128MB partitions iirc.
I always use 500 MB for my first TOS partition.
Limitation of the Linux VFAT filesystem since kernel version 2.6,
related to changes in the filesystem core code that reqiure the logical
sector size to not exceed the MMU page size. If you can generate a TOS
filesystem that satisfies this condition, it might be fine. I've never
tried hard enough to succeed.
Is it possible to make this partition scheme with HD Driver under
TOS?
That's about the only way I know of.
Okay, i did this. Then i used FreeMiNT to make an ext2 FS on the LNX
partition.
The kernel boot messages tell me it mounted /dev/hda4 successfully as
ext2 .
Good. Why not use FreeMINT to unpack the linux filesystem image tarball?
Without byte swappping by device mapper, using ARAnyM might be the
easiest option:
Get the disk partitioned under TOS, then use ARAnyM on a PC to mount
your partition and bootstrap a Debian system on to the mounted
partition
(use ByteSwap=no, Path=/dev/sdb or Path=/dev/hdb to get ARAnyM to
mount
your Falcon disk attached as disk sdb or hdb - make sure you calculate
the correct number of logical cylinders from the disk size). It may be
necessary to use the nfhdXXX devices instead of the hdXXX ones
depending on your version of ARAnyM.
I will need some time to learn about how to use aranym. I have it
installed, but just added pre made disk images.
I currently have no idea how to make sure i calculate the cylinder
numbers correctly. Isn't this something i can write down somewhere from
the Atari?
You may be able to use the disk geometry shown in TOS - i.e. change
number of cylinders. heads, and sectors per track in ARAnyM to match
that. I've always kept heads and sectors per track unchanged and scaled
cylinders accordingly.
Cheers,
Michael
Greets,
Stefan
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