Unfortunately then you didn't read far enough--as I said..I have a working
Linux installation...I'm not trying to boot from the large drive, just mount
swap on it...
the problem is that I cannot seem to make a workable partition table on the
drive... everytime it rereads the partition table it says that it finds
problems with it and that it won't work...
therefore, I believe the problem lies elsewhere--either in the number of
heads/cyl that the kernel "sees" or else in the partition table itself and
how I make it...
that's my problem...just SEEING the hard drive--lilo doesn't care if the
hard drive even exists :-)
>From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake
>Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 09:26:09 -0400 (EDT)
>
>I can tell before I read past the first few lines of your message that you
>didn't "read" the partitioning documentation for "large" drives before you
>installed. :) If you had read that you would have seen that LILO can't
>see past cylinder 1024 which is why you kernel is having a problem.
>
>I'm scolding you tongue in cheek cause I did the same thing once.
>
>anyway, you will want to make some modifications to the partitions you're
>going to setup for an installation that will not give your kernel a fit
>when you boot such a HUGE friggin drive. MAN! I wish mine was that
>BIG! :)
>
>So, here's the layout: (this is the bare minimum basic layout)
>
>/boot = 15MB # this partition is where your kernel will boot from
>
>/home = 5GB # this partition will contain all your data files and your
> # home directory and the home dir's of any other users on
> # the system
>
>/ (root) = (...) #this partition can be as big as you want to make it
> #since you've got 39GB's left however it should
> #be at least 5GB in size
>--------+
>
>Now, if you want to install and use Grub as your boot loader instead of
>LILO that's fine too. Grub doesn't mind big drives at all. You won't need
>to make all these other partitions, HOWEVER, I would strongly advise that
>you DO make a /home partition because in the event of something BAD
>happening on your Linux system that you can't get figured out and the only
>solution to the problem is a fresh install in the OS placing a partition
>on the Hard drive defined as /home will keep your data files safe when you
>format all the other partitions of the linux drive to do the install. I
>fresh intall on newly formatted partitions takes a fraction of the time
>that an install over top of a previous install takes. That's because the
>installation program decides that it MUST read ever entry and analyze them
>all in the RPM database. That can take quite a while.
>
>But that's another story. For now, define your partitions in a similar
>mannar as I've outlined here for you and you'll be booting happily into
>Linux on your insanely lArge drive before you know it.
>
> --
>Mark
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>
>On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Todd Marshall wrote:
>
> > I can't seem to get Mandrake 7.1 running 2.2.16 to access my 45 gig IDE
>hard
> > drive. I am willing to toast it if that's the key to my problem...
> > currently I'm passing the following parameters to the kernel to try to
>get
> > it to recognize this IBM Deskstar 45 gig at hde.
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/sda1
> > initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> > append=" ide2=0xdc00,0xe000 ide3=0xe400,0xe800"
> > read-only
> >
> > Unfortunately when the kernel looks at the partition table of the hard
>drive
> > it gulps:
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007,
>BIOS
> > settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing
>Config
> > Success
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f,
>BIOS
> > settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing
>Config
> > Success
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00
>dev
> > 98
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: HPT366: not 100% native mode: will
>probe
> > irqs later
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07,
>BIOS
> > settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel
>DVD-105S
> > 011, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead
>of
> > ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead
>of
> > ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead
>of
> > ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xe000 on irq 11
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hpt366: assuming 33Mhz PCI bus
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_drive_speed_status:
>status=0x6f {
> > DriveReady DeviceFault DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_drive_speed_status:
>error=0x6f {
> > DriveStatusError UncorrectableError TrackZeroNotFound AddrMarkNotFound
>},
> > LBAsect=258961263
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB
> > Cache, CHS=89355/16/63
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hda: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache,
> > (U)DMA
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: Partition check:
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde:hde: lost interrupt
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: status=0x7f {
> > DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index
>Error }
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: error=0x7f {
> > DriveStatusError UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound
> > AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=260013951, sector=0
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: reset: master: error (0x61?)
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: lost interrupt
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: status=0x7f {
> > DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index
>Error }
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: error=0x7f {
> > DriveStatusError UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound
> > AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=260013951, sector=0
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: reset: master: error (0x61?)
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: lost interrupt
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: status=0x7f {
> > DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index
>Error }
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: error=0x7f {
> > DriveStatusError UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound
> > AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=260013951, sector=0
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:00
>(hde),
> > sector 0
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at
>block 0
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: autodetecting RAID arrays
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: autorun ...
> > Sep 3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ... autorun DONE.
> >
> >
> >
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