[2659] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Adaptech 7880 Adapter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sorin C. Cismas)
Sat Oct 18 18:16:40 1997
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 15:12:39 -0700
To: Tamas TOTH <tamas@vackor.elte.hu>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: "Sorin C. Cismas" <sorin@quarc.com>
At 09:02 PM 10/18/97 +0100, Tamas TOTH wrote:
...
>Finally put a good old 200 Mbyte IDE harddisk into the machine as well
(going back to Flintstones...) and managed to put Linux on that in 5 minutes.
>The boot sector for Linux is now the boot sector of /dev/hda.
>There are three partitions on the big SCSI harddisk (/dev/sda):
>1 Gbyte DOS primary on /dev/sda1
>1.5 Gbyte DOS extended on /dev/sda2(5)
>1.5 Gbyte Linux on /dev/sda3
...
I had a similar experience and I lost a couple of days to figure it out.
It seems that most PC BIOSes have a limitation. The root partition must live
on one of the first two IDE drives if you have more than one.
There are some more limitation to it. For exemple for me it did not work
if the root partition was on the second IDE drive for the configuration:
primary IDE master: first HD
primary IDE slave:
secondary IDE master: CD-ROM
secondary IDE slave: second HD
But it did work for:
primary IDE master: first HD
primary IDE slave: second HD
secondary IDE master: CD-ROM
secondary IDE slave:
So, what I ended up doing is having a 64M root partition on the second IDE drive
and the rest on the SCSI drive.
Regards,
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