Booting from HD partitionForum: HD Install Topic: Booting from HD partition started by: Josiah Posted by Josiah on 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:
So I reboot, and I get a read out like so:
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? Posted by Josiah on 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). Posted by Someone on 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. Posted by Josiah on 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? Posted by Josiah on Aug. 04 2006,22:33
So...any ideas?
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 08 2006,05:56
That's up to you on how you use your hard drive space, and so is your backup and myDSL partition.I'd suggest using that space for those 2 purposes. Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 08 2006,15:02
You won't be able to use it if it's not partitioned and formatted, and you won't be able to partition it if you are already booted into the hda1 system (the disk must be unmounted in order to partition it). So you might as well finish the task before installing.
Posted by brianw on Aug. 08 2006,18:28
I know with my laptop I had problems using cfdisk to do the partitioning so I used fdisk (there is also sfdisk but I haven't used that) to do the partitioning and it worked. Now cfdisk sees the hard drive. Until you get the partition table written you won't be able to format anything so try one of the other tools to see if you can set the partitons first then you can format them. You can use all primary partitions if you want. The only difference (that I see anyway) is that you can only have 4 primary partitions while you can have more logical partitions. Since you only want three partitions using primary is fine. You need that partition table written first though.
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