by Here's the deal--I'm trying to install Linux on a WD540. I'm dedicating
the entire disk to the new operating system. I have a copy of Walnut
Creek's Toolkit for Linux which includes the Slackware stuff. I've used
fdisk for msdos to delete the primary dos partition and all others on this
particular drive.
When I boot from the rawritten floppy--using the scsi boot disk--I have
to enter the aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 line in order to make it recognize my
cdrom. Everything seems to go okay until the following message appears...
hd.c:ST-506 interface disk with more than 16 heads probably due to
non-standard sector translation. Giving up.
(disk1: cyl=524, sect=63, head=32)
hd.c:ST-506 interface disk with more that 16 heads probably due to
non-standard sector translation. Giving up.
(disk0: cyl=821, sect=63, head=32)
Then it prompts me for the root disk--color144. I put it in let it do
it's thing then I login as root and when I try to run fdisk /dev/hdb it
says
unable to read /dev/hdb
this it also says for /dev/hda
All of this is being installed on a 486DX2 80mhz with 12 megs of ram, a
WD850 and a WD540 and a Creative Labs SCSI CDROM--I've tried sbpcd with
the same results.
Version information:
Slackware Linux Install Disk v. 2.1.0
Bootkernel disk v. 2.0.0
Linux v. 1.0.9
Someone out there must have an answer. I've read all the appropriate
FAQs and called the people at Walnut Creek.
post a summary... I swear it.
Help me!!
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