This afternoon, I received a disc containing the 7.0 Beta (Oxygen) from
CheapBytes. The time stamp on the gi_cdrom.img is 21 Dec 99 20:32. The
boot.cat time stamp is 22 Dec 99 16:05.
When trying to perform an upgrade from 6.1 (Helios), it reports an
inability to read the partition table on the hard disk. The following
dialog states that /dev/hda2 is not a valid root partition and that I
should select another. I am then informed there is no valid root
partition, and it sends me back to the inability to read partition table
dialog. This occurs both in Custom and Expert modes.
My partition table is attached as is the dmesg output and the relevant
messages from the third VC.
/dev/hda2 is indeed not a root partition, it mounts as /boot (as many
people who must dual boot have done due to BIOS limitations). But, I am
not being given the option of selecting the correct partition.
Partition Table for /dev/hda
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags
-- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ---------------------- ---------
3 Primary 0 45359 63 45360 Compaq diagnostic (12) None (00)
2 Primary 45360 90719 0 45360 Linux (83) Boot (80)
1 Primary 90720 7260434 0 7169715 Win95 FAT32 (LBA) (0C) None (00)
4 Primary 7260435 12706469 0 5446035 Linux extended (85) None (00)
5 Logical 7260435 7465499 63 205065 Linux (83) None (00)
6 Logical 7465500 7629929 63 164430 Linux (83) None (00)
7 Logical 7629930 7937999 63 308070 Linux (83) None (00)
8 Logical 7938000 8184644 63 246645 Linux (83) None (00)
9 Logical 8184645 8431289 63 246645 Linux (83) None (00)
10 Logical 8431290 8628794 63 197505 Linux swap (82) None (00)
11 Logical 8628795 12706469 63 4077675 Linux (83) None (00)
* trying to mount partition hda2
<4>Linux version 2.2.14-BOOT1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2
19991024 (release)) #9 Tue Dec 21 18:38:32 CET 1999
<4>Detected 200468539 Hz processor.
<4>Console: colour dummy device 80x25
<4>Calibrating delay loop... 80.08 BogoMIPS
<4>Memory: 94856k/98304k available (852k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1228k data, 64k
init)
<4>Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k)
<4>Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
<4>Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
<4>CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c
<6>Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
<6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
<6>Checking for popad bug... OK.
<6>Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
<4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
<4>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf42b2
<4>PCI: Using configuration type 1
<4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
<3>PCI: 00:00 [0e11/4000/000600] has unknown header type ff, ignoring.
<3>PCI: 00:01 [0e11/4000/000600] has unknown header type ff, ignoring.
<3>PCI: 00:02 [0e11/4000/000600] has unknown header type ff, ignoring.
<3>PCI: 00:03 [0e11/4000/000600] has unknown header type ff, ignoring.
<3>PCI: 00:04 [0e11/4000/000600] has unknown header type ff, ignoring.
<3>PCI: 00:05 [0e11/4000/000600] has unknown header type ff, ignoring.
<3>PCI: 00:06 [0e11/4000/000600] has unknown header type ff, ignoring.
<3>PCI: 00:07 [0e11/4000/000600] has unknown header type ff, ignoring.
<6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
<6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
<6>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
<6>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
<6>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
<4>TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
<4>Starting kswapd v 1.5
<4>vesafb: framebuffer at 0x44000000, mapped to 0xc6802000, size 16384k
<4>vesafb: mode is 640x480x16, linelength=1280, pages=26
<4>vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:7e6b
<4>vesafb: scrolling: redraw
<4>vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
<4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
<4>fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
<6>Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
<4>RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size
<4>PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 79, VID=0e11, DID=ae33
<4>PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1010-0x1017, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
<4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1018-0x101f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
<4>hda: ST36531A, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdc: CREATIVE CD-RW RW4224E, ATAPI CDROM drive
<4>hdd: HITACHI CDR-7930, ATAPI CDROM drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<6>hda: ST36531A, 6204MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=13446/15/63
<4>hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1860kB Cache
<6>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
<4>hdd: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
<6>FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
<6>md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
<6>raid5: measuring checksumming speed
<4> 8regs : 186.309 MB/sec
<4> 32regs : 145.542 MB/sec
<4>using fastest function: 8regs (186.309 MB/sec)
<4>scsi : 0 hosts.
<4>scsi : detected total.
<6>COMX: driver version 0.82 (C) 1995-1999 ITConsult-Pro Co. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<4>md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
<4>Partition check:
<4> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 >
<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<6>autodetecting RAID arrays
<4>autorun ...
<4>... autorun DONE.
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
