On Fri, Mar 03, 1995 at 06:24:14PM +0000, Philip Lardner wrote:
> I am trying to install Linux on my Risc PC / SA110 for the first time, and
> all is not going swimmingly :( If this is not the correct forum for sorting
> this sort of thing out, then I hope you will let me know:
>
> I have installed a second 420MB IDE hard disc (identical to the main hard
> disc which came with the machine) on a Simtec Dual-IDE expansion card and
> have created a 6MB Filecore partition on it which I can access without any
> difficulty. I then ran !PartMan and created a Linux Native and a Swap
> partitions as per the install instructions. No problems so far.
>
> I then fired up the kernel, again following the instructions to the letter,
> and tried to specify CD ROM as the install media. Unfortunatly It wouldn't
> recognise the old Cumana drive and its patch board which I had in the
> machine. So I got hold of a much newer 32x drive. This drive, however, reads
> glacially slowly on RISC PC's on-board IDE interface - slaved to the master
> hard disc, (It works fine on the Simtec Dual-IDE card, but which the kernel
> can not recognise.) Anyway, I fired up the kernel again and selected the new
> CD ROM as the install media - so far, so good. After a second, an error box
> poped up with:
The SimTec IDE drivers are being worked on, and in fact, as soon as my
home PC is sorted I can get back to working on trying to fix them (boot
fine, but hang on interrupt requests...). I hope to fix this shortly and
be able to release a beta driver.
> Wierd - Where did my partitions go, and where did the RISCiX Table come from?
The SimTec IDE interface seems to use RISCiX style partition tables, maybe
due to the close SimTec<>RiscBSD ties.
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