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Re: Loadlin
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> Loadlin 1.5, the version most popular on all the current distributions,
> apperently has no support for hdc and hdd.
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> I tryed to install Linux yesterday on a VX board, P133, hda is all DOS,
> and HDC is all Linux. floppyless installation of RH 3.0.3 worked fine
> (only I was sad to be reminded that Adaptec AHA-1510 isn't supported),
> i.e. I had the sb mounted, hcd partitioned, formatted and installed
> smoothly, but loadlin couldn't be set to have it as root (only hda/hdb
> supported, said the manual), and Lilo got stuck at "LI"
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> disk 1 is a Seagate 850, Primary/master
> disk 2 is WD 1280, Secondery/master
> both LBA, all should have gone smoothly, at least with LILO, but also
> loadlin. what gives?
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> Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> Scalable Solutions
I heared that LILO do not like boot partitions above 504M,
but I never tryed it because I prefer loadlin.
>From other side I've discovered that linux's fdisk and linux at all
do not like LBA mode. Some disks works, some not, some disks works
in strange behavior. Moving to NORMAL mode in BIOS always helps.
BTW, why linux care about BIOS disk mode ?
Oleg
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References:
- Loadlin
- From: Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com>