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- From: chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu)
- Subject: Re: Extended partition is not recongnized when boot from HD
- References: <1992Aug26.144800.6995@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 07:46:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.074617.8861@nas.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Aug26.144800.6995@cmcl2.nyu.edu> wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu (Wei Wu) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- I had the same problem w/ extended partitions on SCSI disk not
- recognized when booted from hard disk. However, I found that if the
- bootimage is built w/o stripping out the symbol table (by commenting
- out the "strip ..." statement in the Makefile), the extended partition
- on SCSI disk will be recognized when booting from a hard disk. Note
- that I did not have Linux in the extended partitions (only DOS and
- OS/2) but the locations of the extended partitions were identified
- after I rebuilt 0.97 boot image w/o stripping out the symbol table.
-
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- Ing-Tsau Chiu chiu@nas.nasa.gov
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