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- From: hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Extended partition is not recongnized when boot from HD
- Summary: same problem here
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.193610.24951@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:36:10 GMT
- Article-I.D.: athena.1992Aug26.193610.24951
- References: <1992Aug26.144800.6995@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
- Sender: news@athena.cs.uga.edu
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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- In article <1992Aug26.144800.6995@cmcl2.nyu.edu> wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu (Wei Wu) writes:
- >
- >I have a system with 386DX/25, 8Mb RAM, IDE disk, AHA1542B and Fujitsu
- >SCSI disk, Linux 0.97-pl1.5.).
- >On my IDE driver I have one primary partition for dos, one small
- >primary partition for Linux root, and one extended partition all for
- >OS/2. On the SCSI disk I have three primary partitions for Linux,
- >(two for data, one for swap) and one big extended partition divided
- >two logical partitions, one for DOS and one for OS/2.
- >
- >My problem is this. When I boot Linux from floppy, everything is OK.
- >In the boot up message, it stated that the primary and all the logical
- >partitions are recongnized.
- >
- >However, if I boot the same image from hard disk, (shoelace installed)
- >at boot up, it stated that the primary partitions are OK, the logical
- >partition on IDE is recongnized, but for the SCSI disk, the primary
- >partitions are recongnized , the logical partitions on the extended
- >partitions are NOT recongnized, it gives error messages 'cann't read
- >partition table on device 804' or something like that. Then I cann't
- >access the extended partition on SCSI disk.
- >Note that when I boot from floppy everything is fine, I CAN access
- >the extended partition on the SCSI disk just fine.
- >
- >Do you have any idea what the problem could be?
- >
- >Thanks in advance.
- >
- >Wei Wu (wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu)
- >
-
- I have the same problem. I posted about my problem a couple of
- weeks ago, but the only responses I got were email messages from
- others (including Wei Wu) who are having the same problem. I ONLY
- have a SCSI drive, and I was using logical partitions for Linux /usr
- and swap. Everything's fine if I boot from floppy, but when I boot
- from HD, I get a "Unable to read partition table of device 0801"
- message.
-
- I sounds like it must be SCSI related. Perhaps some horrid thing
- that OS/2 does (yes, I'm guilty), maybe because of a HPFS logical
- partition? I'm also using the 1542B, a Fujitsu M2624FA, and 0.97.
-
- Any ideas, Drew?
-
- If anyone would like the exact boot-up messages that I get with
- a floppy boot vs. a HD boot, let me know. They were in my
- original posting and I still have them around.
-
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