by Hi,
I have mailed to this NG before but give it a new try.
I have a PII 300 MHz system with Adaptec 2940-Ultra Wide SCSI (w BIOS).
To that there is a JAZ 1 GB as /dev/sda and one IBM-DCAS-34330W 4.3 GB
SCSI-2 HD as /dev/sdb.
I boot through System Commander.
The partioning is as follows according to SC:
Win 95 FAT32 2.8 GB (sdb1)
Starting Ending Sector
Head Sector Cyl Head Sector Cyl First Total
1 1 0 254 63 0
63 5927922
(number of sectors in 512 B)
Linux 102 MB root Unix-83
Starting Ending Sector
Head Sector Cyl Head Sector Cyl First Total
0 1 369 254 63 381 592985
208845
Besides the / I have /usr and swap on sdb5 and sdb6 (i.e. extended
sdb3).
On sdb4 I will install Solaris which I had installed before Linux.
If I boot Linux through System Commander I'll get 101010101010.....
If I boot with the floppy and vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 option I get
"Unable to mount
fs on 08:12"
So there's plenty I don't understand. I guess SC can't read the
lilo.conf from /sdb2
and therefore have nothing to work with. Why I can't mount the file
system on /dev/sdb2 when booting with floppy I have no idea.
Is there anyone who knows where the problem lies and most of all what to
do about ?
Is the problem that the Win95 partition is too big ? I use today around
2.2 GB of it but I
guess I can reduce that with 500-600 MB (games) without any problems.
Is it the HW ? The Adaptec ? The IBM HD ?
Is it that the installation didn't work even though it said it was
succesful. I didn't install
LILO in MBR.
Is there stuff I should look for in the boot setup and maybe change ?
Best Rgards,
Sune