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Topic: DSL 0.7.2 HD install no workie, cfdisk can't see HD

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UnDude

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Joined: July 2004

Posted: Aug. 07 2004,23:35

Greetings,

I am unable to perform a normal DSL 0.7.2 HD install on one of my old PCs. Here's my hardware configuration:

Tyan Tomcat III motherboard
Cyrix P166 CPU (P1-compatible, although Win XP won't install on this PC because MickySoft claims it's a 486

)
128 MB RAM
IDE Primary Master = CD-ROM drive, Primary Slave = Maxtor 7 GB HD

I used Partition Magic 8 boot floppies to set up my partitions as follows:

hdb1 = 305.9 MB, FAT16, Win 95 OSR2 w/NTLDR as boot manager
Sectors 63 to 626,534 (CHS 0-1-1 to 38-254-63)
This partition is used mainly for disaster recovery and to hold the boot manager

hdb5 = 5,263.5 MB, FAT32, Win 2k Pro
Sectors 626,598 to 11,406,149 (CHS 39-1-1 to 709-254-63)
This is my main work partition

hdb6 = 502.0 MB, FAT16, Win NT 3.51 Workstation
Sectors 11,406,213 to 12,434,309 (CHS 710-1-1 to 773-254-63)

hdb7 = 604.0 MB, Ext2, DSL-ready
Sectors 12,434,373 to 13,671,314 (CHS 774-1-1 to 850-254-63)

I have copied both the HD MBR and hdb1's boot sector to files for safekeeping. I'd like to put LILO on hdb7 and keep NTLDR as my boot manager - assuming I get that far.

The DSL 0.7.2 CD boots fine, although I must specify video mode 0 (80 x 25) "Local APIC #0 not detected" as well as mouse location (PS/2 port) and video resolution and color depth.

Once on the DSL desktop, in xterm, I type "sudo dsl-hdinstall" and specify hdb7 as the target partition. I get:

Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 6 (3 times)
Warning: invalid flag 0x395e of partition table 6 will be corrected by w(rite)
Sorry system has not detected a linux partition.

Hmmm, maybe I just have a "Sorry system"?

Next, I type "sudo cfdisk" and get:

FATAL ERROR: Cannot read disk drive
Press any key to exit cfdisk

Finally, I type "sudo fdisk -l" and get:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 39 313236 6 FAT16
/dev/hdb2 40 851 6522390 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 * 40 710 5389776 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hdb6 ? 106306 176659 565108754+ 66 Unknown

Emelfm sees all partitions thru hdb7 just fine, and can mount, read, and write any of them.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

mpie

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Posted: Aug. 08 2004,00:21

weird thought but try it as a standard linux partition as the install process makes it ext2 anyway............. post the result, also are your partritions using all your harddrive some systems require a small amount of free disk for host protected info....just suggestions?

UnDude

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Joined: July 2004

Posted: Aug. 08 2004,03:25

I did try leaving hdb7 as unallocated space before booting the DSL CD, thinking that I could maybe create and format the partition from within DSL, but still no go. Cfdisk still can't see the HD at all, and fdisk still shows goofy info for hdb6.