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- From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Extended partition is not recongnized when boot from HD
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.140947.28921@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 14:09:47 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.144800.6995@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <1992Aug26.193610.24951@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- In <1992Aug26.193610.24951@athena.cs.uga.edu> hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug26.144800.6995@cmcl2.nyu.edu> wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu (Wei Wu) writes:
-
- ...
-
- >>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.
-
- ...
-
- >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.
-
- I also two two SCSI disks, with extended partitions for OS/2, Windows and
- Linux. I haven't got the thing booting Linux of the hd yet, so no comment
- here.
-
- BUT, I ran into the same problem when I tried adding the CD-ROM filesystem
- to the kernel, it could no longer read any of my extended paritions.
-
- I'm working with the authors of the CD-ROM stuff to find out exactly
- what is is that breaks, but this makes it look more like a generic problem
- with the SCSI drivers and extended partions.
-
- -Chris
-
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