Re: big IBM harddisk => works now!
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, virtanen wrote: -=[snip]=- v> 2) I used 'resc' and 'root' disks to start installation process to get v> into 'initialising a harddisk'. Is there any other tool available to do v> this? cfdisk /dev/hdc mke2fs /dev/hdc? - where the ? is the partition number .. v> 3) Now the only possibility to use cdrom seems to be that it must be v> connected as 'hdd'. If I put it as hdb, the system hangs while booting... v> Maybe I have to change bios for that as well? Anyway my cd seems to be v> working with the Big One on the same secondary interface. i'm not sure about this but i think that will slow your drive down a bit .. because big disks support ata33/66 or udma .. cd drives usually don't .. but it shouldn't be that bad .. v> 4) If I want to mount my Big One automatically while booting the box, how v> to do that? edit /etc/fstab and add the partitions and mount points there .. man fstab should tell you how to do it if you can't figure it out from the existing stuff in the fstab .. Dingo. ).|.( '.'___'.' ' '(>~<)' ' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.org port -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=-=- Debian version 2.2.18pre21, up 6 days, 17 users, load average: 1.00 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: big IBM harddisk => works now!
Hi, thanks for all, who gave me advice/ideas what to do! On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lars Knudsen wrote: > Have you tried putting the disk on the secondary ide interface and > disabling > the secondary ide interface in the bios ? I know it sounds like a stupid > thing > to do, but linux does not use the bios very much and disabling the ide > interface might bypass the disk check that the BIOS seem to perform even > when > told not to, while there is still a chance that Linux can see the disk. Actually this worked anyway. I put the Big One as hdc and disabled the secondary ide interface in the bios. I set the bios for secondary interface as 'manual' and ignored completely the geometry of the disk. 1) Now while booting debian finds the disk. 2) I used 'resc' and 'root' disks to start installation process to get into 'initialising a harddisk'. Is there any other tool available to do this? 3) Now the only possibility to use cdrom seems to be that it must be connected as 'hdd'. If I put it as hdb, the system hangs while booting... Maybe I have to change bios for that as well? Anyway my cd seems to be working with the Big One on the same secondary interface. 4) If I want to mount my Big One automatically while booting the box, how to do that? > > Happy hacking, > > \Gandalf -hv
