Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:22:23 -0800 (PST) | From | Clayton Weaver <> | Subject | Re: [2.1.90-final] Kernel won't boot from [EZD] partition |
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I don't know that Linux can read a DrivePro drive.
It could use linear in lilo.conf instead, but that probably isn't much help as far as getting from DrivePro remapped to there.
My ancient technique on pre-lba 486 boards was to make a root partition that ends below cyl 1024, install the base distribution and an editor, edit lilo.conf and add "linear" to the global section up above the per-kernel sections, reboot.
Linux would come up using linear sector numbers after that, and fdisk and lilo could see the whole drive. I would run fdisk, make the rest of the partitions, reboot, run mke2fs to make filesystems, mount filesystems on /mnt and copy things in directories on the root directory that were going to end up on those other partitions to there eventual destinations, edit fstab, reboot again.
Now all partitions are seen, without needing lba translation or small drives or losing part of the visible drive space from the cyl-head-sector bios field width limit.
I've been using a 1600+ cyl connor eide drive this way for a couple of years, and the linear parameter to lilo was compatible with wd540 eide drives and doesn't bother my digital/quantum scsi drives, either. Should be fine with the Seagate (ps: check it with hdparm after everything is installed to see what kind of pio mode support you get).
Good luck.
Regards, Clayton Weaver cgweav@eskimo.com (Seattle)
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