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- From: golden@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Edward Golden)
- Subject: How to boot a SCSI drive (w/ a WD7000 FASST)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.043836.11320@udel.edu>
- Sender: golden@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Edward Golden)
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- Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 04:38:36 GMT
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- I am another who is quite new to linux, and is trying to get it to
- work for me.
-
- My system has a WD-7000 Fasst SCSI adapter in it. Thanks to the help
- given by an expert here, I managed to convince 0.97 to see my adapter card.
- (I had moved the BIOS chip adress to 0xC8000 to fit better in UMB for DOS.
- 0.97 couldn't find it there. I had to move it back to 0xCE0000) Now
- I have two new concerns.
-
- First, how do I make 0.97 boot completely from the hard disk? I'd like to
- be able to boot without any floppies involved. Linux is on the second
- partition of my drive (MS-Dos owning the first, primary partition). I have
- done "mkfs" and partitioned it properly (I think, see below). Barring that,
- I can't even make the boot floppy mount the drive as "/". (I "pboot" and
- used "0302") The partition for linux is "/dev/sda2"... not "/dev/hda#".
-
- The other concern is about the WD-7000 partitioning. The WD card comes
- with some utilities (SSTSETUP, SSTBIO.SYS, etc) that are supposed to be used
- for partitioning. Linux doesn't seem to be compatible with the partitions
- created by these utilities. I had to use MSDOS 5.0 fdisk and "pfdisk" to
- make the partitons. This makes the drive incompatable with the dos drivers.
- Is there some way around this problem? Or can I leave it alone, trusting that
- the system is stable partitioned this way? (Do I HAVE to use the SST
- utilities?)
-
- Again, I'd be grateful for any assistance. Thanx!
-
- [Golden]
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