In <URL:news:local.armlinux> on Sun 31 Jan, Andy Piper wrote:
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> I've had huge problems getting the drive initialised with an Ext2fs
> filesystem. !PartMan didn't want to know the drive initially due to the
> IDEFS partition information on it. After scrubbing various parts of the
> disc map with a disc editor I got ADFS back to thinking it was
> unformatted, but the only way to format it is to use the program which
> came with the card... which essentially just writes more IDEFS information
> onto it.
You do want ICS-type IDEFS partitions on your hard disc, so that isn't a
problem (otherwise you can't have Filecore partitions on the same disc).
Are you using the latest alpha version of PartMan (from the ftp site)?
> At one stage I thought I'd succeeded in creating the right partitions, but
> once I started the ARM Linux install (following Paul Vigay's instructions)
> it became apparent that the partitions weren't formatted correctly at all.
PartMan doesn't do any formatting; it just creates a partition table. The
install program should create an ext2 filesystem on the partition.
If you're following Paul Vigay's instructions to the letter (of the copy
I've got, anyway), they won't work with an ICS/Baildon interface. You need
to supply the right magic numbers to mknod. The install program should be
able to do this for you -- if you say yes when it asks you if you want to
create a filesystem on /dev/hdcX (where X is your partition number), does it
work?
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