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Posted: Aug. 07 2004,23:35 |
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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"? ![:D](http://damnsmalllinux.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif)
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.
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