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- From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: How to boot a SCSI drive (w/ a WD7000 FASST)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.114513.21477@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <1992Sep14.043836.11320@udel.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:45:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.043836.11320@udel.edu> golden@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Edward Golden) writes:
-
- > 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#".
-
- Try 0802 - major 3 is the "normal" disk, 8 is the SCSI disk.
-
- Install the master boot record of your choice, and either
- LILO or Shoelace.
-
-
- >
- > 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
-
- Maybe. Normally, you shouldn't *need* the drivers, since the card does
- have a BIOS.
-
- >the system is stable partitioned this way? (Do I HAVE to use the SST
- >utilities?)
-
- Probably not.
-
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
-