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Topic: Booting from HD partition, The computer wont recognize my partition

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Josiah

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Posted: Aug. 02 2006,23:27

I just installed to the hard drive using these instructions. I created three partitions. Two type 83 Linux (one for booting) and one Type 82 Linux Swap. I had initially set up hda3 (the non-boot Type 83 partition, comprising about 90% of my HD) as Fat32, not really knowing what the correct type was. When I realized my error, I went back into cfdisk and changed hda3 to Type 83 Linux. (Side note: all partitions are setup as "primary" rather than "logical"; i don't know the difference). I hit write partition table and it gave me a readout as follows:

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Wrote partition table, but re-read table failed. Reboot to update table.

So I reboot, and I get a read out like so:

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Scanning for Harddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstab... modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module xfs
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module minix
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module hfs
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module efs
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module xfs
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module minix
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module hfs
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module efs
Done.
Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. (Backgrounding)
Automounted starter for: floppy cdrom cdrom1.
ssh started
Checking for myDSL apps... FAT: bogus logical sector size 49788
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:03.
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module efs
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Done
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
FAT: bogus logical sector size 49788
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:03.
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module efs
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Unable to mount device hda3
Press enter to continue:

I hit enter, and it boots normally. But I don't seem to be able to save any sort of settings including, for instance, myDSL extentions and the root password.

What's going on?

Josiah

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Posted: Aug. 03 2006,03:39

Note: after reconfiguring my harddrive as described above (two linux partitions and one linux swap partition) I reinstalled DSL. The same problem persists.

It's as though I'm booting from a liveCD still, in that nothing will save (and yes, I have removed the live CD from the drive).

Someone

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Posted: Aug. 03 2006,03:49

Thats because you have not formatted them yet, so format them:
Swap: mkswap /dev/hdax where x is your swap partition, after that swapon /dev/hdax
And then install dsl to the other partition you made, it will format it by it self.
Remember to be root when you execute the commands.

Josiah

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Posted: Aug. 03 2006,04:47

So I'm clear, you are recommending a partition scheme something like this:

PuTTy cfdisk screen shot

And i should leave the rest unpartitioned? Will I be able to use the remaining space?

And when the LILO install asks me if I want to designate a different backup partition and and a different myDSL partition, I should say no?