On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:57:35AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm running an PC164SX , using milo to boot my kernel, > which was working fine when I used a 4.5 Gb scsi harddisk. > > Now I have put in a 18 Gb scsi disk and milo fails to load the kernel > from that disk , or read the filesystems on it. > It gives errors indicating it does not recognize the (ext2) filesystem. > (BTW I can load a milo off a FAT filesystem on the 18 Gb disk) > > When I boot the kernel from the 4.5 Gb disk , but use the 18 Gb disk > for / , it's all fine. All filesystems check are OK. So once the > kernel is running it has no problem with the 18 Gb disk at all. > > I've tried the newer milo's for my system , all have the same behavior. > > I use ARC BIOS. The scsi-controller is an AHA2940UW but that should not > be a problem since the 4.5 Gb disk boots off it fine. > > Does anyone know off anything to try before I start converting to srm/aboot > ? (Which I'm not to happy about, as it involves flashing , repartioning > disks....)
You didn't say, but the ext2 partition on the 18GB disk that you are failing to boot from, is it *really* large, or is it a *long* way from the beginning of the disk? If so, this may be a problem similar to the old "aboot" one, which was solved by defining a small )<2GB) ext2 partition fairly close to the start of the disk (within 2GB, IIRC), and then booting out of that. Good luck. --Jay++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay A Estabrook Alpha Engineering - LINUX Project Compaq Computer Corp. - MRO1-2/K15 (508) 467-2080 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
