HD Install :: can't install DSL!! :'(



Just do:
dmesg | grep ide
Man.. I wish there was a way I could copy everything from that computer onto floppy so I wouldnt've had to write all of this down.. then type it out again.. so if there's any way to do that, please lemme know. lol

But yeah, here's what I got:

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[/home/dsl]# dmesg | grep ide
<6>BIOS - provided physical RAM map:
<4>Kernal command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal =initrd=minirt24.gz noscsi noideraid nosound nousb nofirewire noicons minimal nomce noapic noapm quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux24
<6>ide= Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
<6>      ide0= BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0fcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
<6>      ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
<4>ide0 at 0x1F0-0x1F7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
<4>hda: attached ide-disk driver.
<4>hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
<4>ide: late registration of driver.
<4>hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
<3>VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,0)
<4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,0)
<4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
<4>sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,0)
<3>VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,64).
<4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,64).
<4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
<4>sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,64)


(I swear that looks like a LOT more on paper..)

And when I tried the second command, the one with HD at the end of it.. it did more than it let me see, but here's what I could see (remember: this's after I entered the command dmesg | grep hd).

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<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<4>hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x02 { TrackZeroNotFound }
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table
<6>hdb:unknown partition table


I have no idea what any of that means.. but I hope someone here does..
Ugh... I tried doin' something I found from another place on damnsmalllinux.org.. the old forums, or somethin.. I dunno. (This place: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-5-14837-20.html )But yeah, I tried booting with "dsl 2" and then creating /ramdisk/tmp, then I ran dsl-hdinstall from /usr/sbin.. it seemed like it was working right. It went through everything ok, then it said I had to reboot to finish the installation.

So I rebooted as it prompted me to.. then my computer said "No operating system found" or whatever. So then I tried using zboot to check my partitions.. but now I can't even do that. Whenever I try to use zboot, it loads the background, but all it does is show a little box with the sentence "Checking Hard Disk" (or something like that) flashing. So I can't even use that now.

I tried using killdisk again to start over completely, but zboot still does the same thing. So I don't know what to do now... I don't wanna give up on this, but it doesn't really seem like it wants to work for me.
I'm wondering what kind of machine you are running (specifically how much RAM, or physical memory).  It seems you are running with low memory... if so, you can boot with "lowram" among other bootcodes (see wiki page i.e. for the superlowram sequence; another thing that seems to work is to specify how much ram, e.g. "mem=16M")

Did you get this far by using the bootdisk+isolinux cd?  If so, it sounds like your first disc was corrupted (did you check your 2nd download?).

Looks like you got 2 ide hdd's and a cdrom drive... but it seems hda and hdb are incorrectly set?  Try partitioning using `cfdisk -z /dev/hda` or if you're using hdb, `cfdisk -z /dev/hdb`
Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ April 29 2007,00:19)
I'm wondering what kind of machine you are running (specifically how much RAM, or physical memory).  It seems you are running with low memory... if so, you can boot with "lowram" among other bootcodes (see wiki page i.e. for the superlowram sequence; another thing that seems to work is to specify how much ram, e.g. "mem=16M")

Did you get this far by using the bootdisk+isolinux cd?  If so, it sounds like your first disc was corrupted (did you check your 2nd download?).

Looks like you got 2 ide hdd's and a cdrom drive... but it seems hda and hdb are incorrectly set?  Try partitioning using `cfdisk -z /dev/hda` or if you're using hdb, `cfdisk -z /dev/hdb`

As far as I know, it's got 16MB of RAM.. a 1.5GB HD, and there's a 100MB ZIP drive there, too.. but this's the first ZIP drive I've ever had, so I ain't messin' with it since I don't know how to use it.. plus, it's the only computer here with a ZIP drive.. and I don't have any zip discs, so there's no point in it really.

But yeah, 16MB of RAM, 1.5GB HD, 100MB ZIP drive, CDROM drive, floppy drive.. and that's all I know.

Anyway.. yeah, I got that far by using the bootdisk and the new cd I burned.. but now I gotta figure out what's wrong with it now.. it won't even let me use zboot anymore, which's what I use to partition with. I 'would' use cfdisk and see if that would work, but I could never find it. I searched all over google for like.. forever.. but I couldn't find a download for it. So if you got it or know where I can get it and can send it to me or tell me where to download, I'd really appriciate it.. maybe that'd work even though zboot doesn't.

Also: when I booted with "lowram", I could only get as far as [/home/dsl]# or whatever.. but in booting with "dsl 2", it let me install it.. though it also messed everything up 'cause I didn't do something right. But yeah, I couldn't figure out how to install from where lowram led me to.
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