Re: NTLDR and Thinkpads

2006-06-14 Thread Peter Huber
> this will do only on blank drives, and according to this > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-07/msg00030.html as I see here, parted uses /proc/ide/hda/settings to overwrite the values returned by HDIO_GETGEO. As the path seems to be hardcoded to /proc/ide/hda/settings a (bad)

Re: NTLDR and Thinkpads

2006-06-14 Thread Falko Trojahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello again, >> - if it really bails out at this else clause this means, that there >> is no /proc/ide/$sys_hda/settings >> so perhaps only the variable $sys_hda has to be corrected > > I dont know much about the scsi system, ... > I was not a

Re: NTLDR and Thinkpads

2006-06-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
onsdag 14. juni 2006, 17:19, skrev Falko Trojahn : > > else { > > # Non-IDE disk. Should probably sanity-check kernel > > # geometry against legacy BIOS geometry here. FIXME. > > } > > Non-IDE disc systems end up in the commented out else .. :-/ > > (at l

Re: NTLDR and Thinkpads

2006-06-14 Thread Falko Trojahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > The situation: > If you use the compt. mode there is no /proc/ide/hda dir. So "if (-e > $settings)" is false. An print in the else tree proves this. So no entry > in the $settings is written. > > If you use AHCI "my $hda = readlink ('/dev/dsk') p

Re: NTLDR and Thinkpads

2006-06-14 Thread Peter Huber
> So somebody could try the R52/R60 with this AHCI and the ISO from > http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/NTLDRNotFound, please? > > In this situation /proc/ide/hda/settings must exist and I wonder > what parted now does with the partition table or, where unattended > then fails. We already tried

Re: NTLDR and Thinkpads

2006-06-14 Thread Falko Trojahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> - - if it really bails out at this else clause this means, that there >> is no /proc/ide/$sys_hda/settings >> so perhaps only the variable $sys_hda has to be corrected > If you configure the Thinkpad R60 in an sata compatiblility mode there

Re: NTLDR and Thinkpads

2006-06-14 Thread Peter Huber
> - - may be you could provide the right settings by changing install.pl > and setting the values e.g. in config.pl, if you know them (240 > heads ...), so that parted uses them. If there is no other way, > parted can be patched, too, to use the needed values. while booting edd tells the correct

Re: NTLDR and Thinkpads

2006-06-14 Thread Falko Trojahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > Ive been wrestling with an Thinkpad T60 today. That's the right word ;-) > (I used the ISO image at http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/NTLDRNotFound > for a newer kernel than 4.6 has) > > This is where things goes wrong: > > -install

NTLDR and Thinkpads

2006-06-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Hi, Ive been wrestling with an Thinkpad T60 today. (I used the ISO image at http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/NTLDRNotFound for a newer kernel than 4.6 has) This is where things goes wrong: -install.pl from line 1472- if (-e $settings_file) { print