On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:23:15PM +0100, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > In Linux, the new disk works fine, in AmigaOS the HDToolbox can see it, > > change partitions, boot priorities, etc, but the Amiga partitions do not > > show up in AmigaOS, even after a reboot, so I can not format them, or is > > there a tool to format amiga partitions from AmigaOS? > > Sure, there's the tool cleverly named "format" that does the job :)
Yes, no, sorry, I mis-spoke. I have partitioned the disk in Linux, now I would like to format it in Linux also, but AFAIK there is no format tool in Linux that can format Amiga partitions, correct? > However - your disk is what.. 250GB? > My guess is that your scsi.device and filesystem handler are not updated > to handle more than 4GB disks and 2GB partitions. I set up the first disk on my Amiga2000, and I think I could set up and make AmigaOS bootable on it: Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 31 sectors, 246167 cylinders, RDB: 0 Logical Cylinders from 2 to 246166, 1015808 bytes/Cylinder (the second disk says here: Logical Cylinders from 2 to 246166, 512 bytes/Cylinder is this trouble?) Device Boot Mount Begin End Size Pri BBlks System /dev/sda1 * * 2 256 252960 1 0 Amiga FFS /dev/sda2 * 257 1056 793600 0 0 Amiga FFS /dev/sda3 * 1057 5284 4194176 0 0 Linux native /dev/sda4 * 5285 9512 4194176 0 0 Linux native /dev/sda5 * 9513 13740 4194176 0 0 Linux native /dev/sda6 * 13741 67649 53477728 0 0 Linux native /dev/sda7 * 67650 244053 174992768 0 0 Linux native /dev/sda8 * 244054 246166 2096096 0 0 Linux swap The two Amiga partitions are both smaller than 1GB, so there should be no problem to handle the Amiga partitions? hdtoolbox has a problem with the big disks, thats why I partitioned it in Linux. Maybe, when I first set it up, I only created the two Amiga partitions, but I will leave this to Ingo to figure out ;-) My AmigaOS manual says under hdtoolboox, see the Amiga harddisk manual, but my A2k came without harddisk, so I don't have this manual. > But do you need that? > If the point here is to have a linux/m68k system and only need amiga > partition for amiboot and kernels, you should prepare a tiny amigaos > partition at the very start of the disk, smaller than 2GB. That should be > recognizable from AmigaOS and also be formattable. That is the plan, I just need it to boot, maybe hold the installer files to test the installation, and a couple of kernel images. Alas, the partitions do not even show up in the early boot menu, even though the 1 partition is bootable, so there is no chance to format it. I must be missing something obvious, hdtoolbox can see the partitions, but nothing else can. Yes, I did reboot. > If you really need lots of amiga partitions, you need to update your > system with newer scsi.device that handles large disks, and new filesystem > that handles large filesystems. I tried that also, I had these filesystems on my A2k, but they were beta versions and have long since expired. I think I found some patches on Aminet to remove the beta status, but I did not quite get it to work. And as you said, with the "small" partitions (my first amiga disk had 100MB...) it should not be necessary. It has been a while that I used AmigaOS, and I don't think I will go back... Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
