On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 02:34:16PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 21:32:35 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: > > but it just flashes the characters > > > > 2FA: > > That's from the Master Boot Record program.
I guess you are correct about this, because I took the drive and reformated it with dos, and it was able to boot. Does this mean I am going to have to create a dos partition on the disk, and put loadlin in it with the kernel, and have an autoexec which will in turn boot linux? Now, I did find the IDE patches, and I was able to create a boot disk that will boot my system and find the drive on the controller. It would just be nice if that MBR with lilo could start up my disk. I will have to take a closer look at the UDMA howto. In the meantime, I am having trouble with fmt seeing the full size of the disk. I have the Large Drive HOWTO, but that does not seem to tell me exactly what I need to type in, so fmt will use the proper parameters and see the full 20 Gigs. Side note, my scsi system sure does seem a whole lot easier. Perhaps twice the price for the same drive space is not so bad after all. brian > > > I also tried booting with a floppy with IDE support, but it won't > > detect it either. > > The bootfloppies for Slink don't handle UDMA66. You need to use bootfloppies > with a kernel on them that's patched for UDMA66 support (using the IDE > patches from ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/). I'm not sure > if potato's bootfloppies (will) support UDMA66. > > HTH, > Ray > -- > UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried > to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, > UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. > - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
