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Old 01-18-2005, 11:19 AM   #1
bigbadbarry
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Mounting Disk Array drive3 / Edited


Needs to mount 3rd drive in array.

Am trying to boot with floppy image,
but how to get driver for the array controller into the mix.

Thanks

enviroment

E:\(3rd drive), is a FAT32

C,D,and F are NTFS (2000 Server is on C)

E:\linux (this is target).

What about any considerations for memory

Boot image gives me

boot:


Thanks

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Old 01-19-2005, 01:42 AM   #2
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I don't quite understand -are you trying to boot Amigo Linux which you have unzipped onto E:? If so you should be able to boot with:
mount root=/dev/hda? rw
You'll need to figure out what partition E is called under Linux. You can do this by just hitting enter and letting it try to boot. Then when it stops, use the shift+pgup keys to scroll up till you see the partition info:
/dev/hda1 etc. Then reboot and use the correct root entry.
Amigo2 will run with 16MB total memory -(8MB real RAM and 8MB swap). You'll want to give it abit more than that if possible!
 
Old 01-19-2005, 09:04 AM   #3
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Hi, Thanks for your help.

If this helps; E:\ is physical drive not partition on single drive, there are 4 drives in this machine.

Oh yeah, I unzipped the Amigo package to the drive E: like this.

E:\linux

This was the default extraction.

So I reboot with amigo2rc10.img in the floppy drive.

I get the boot:
I hit enter as you reccommend.

I see no reference to hda1 etc...

All I can see that looks like reference to my drives is...

md: linear personality as nr 1
md: raid 0 personality as nr 2
md: raid 1 personality as nr 3
md: raid 5 personality as nr 4

so I tried "raid 1" in syntax and I tried "nr 3" (thinking E:\ is 3rd on chain)

to no avail.

I hope I unzipped this right, how does boot order know that root image is in a directory called linux...now im wondering if I should put contents of e:\linux to e:\

Thanks again I appreciate your time.

Barryman

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When I installed windows on this machine, I had to introduce 3rd party raid drivers to the installation environment.

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Old 01-19-2005, 10:44 AM   #4
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Ah, I just remembered, I also have an option of loading Amigo from a dos prompt.

I mean, if the above post gives any clues I'd still rather take that route, since the above post, I have re-formatted the drive as a FAT thinking that maybe the FAT32 was not suitable. I did read the FAT32 would work...thinking it has better storage ability and speed..I'd prefer the 32.

Im goin get this thing booted...I have been experimenting with different distrubutions, this one seems promising; my snags are basically unique to this computer, seeing that my hard drives seem to need that sillly driver. I can boot from CD, if this might be an option, I could just fix up a CD...but would rather boot from a hard drive.

Soooo sorry to bore everybody.

Gotta get raid driver into the mix during boot sequence.

Barryallday
 
Old 01-19-2005, 02:47 PM   #5
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It is correct that it unzip and create a folder called linux. the kernel knows to look for the umsdos file system in a folder called /linux.
What we need to know is the real location of the partition according to linux.
You have four drives: C,D,E,and F.
If they each have only one partition, then:
C: = hda1 IDE1-master
D: = hdb1 IDE1-slave
E: = hdc1 IDE2-master
F: = hdd1 IDE2-slave
If the above is true, from boot floppy at the 'boot:' prompt, type:
mount root=/dev/hda3 rw
Or, to boot from DOS, edit linux.bat and uncomment the appropriate line and place file where DOS can acces it, along with the kernel.
All this assumes normal IDE drives, though. You may need to use a regular Slackware raid kernel to boot with and some more raid-specific advice which you might get on the LQ slackware forum. I don't know about RAID unfortunately.
 
Old 01-20-2005, 07:32 PM   #6
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Please Pass The Init

Hello again, Im still working on this...

Sooo I moved the whole project to another computer.

I have been searching all over the forums for this..I find it, but nothing too specific for me, sounds like something simple...

no init, try passing init to kernel...

(says this with dos boot, or image boot)

hdc
and
hdc1
even tho there is only one partition on a fat drive.

Well, Ill keep searching, maybe this is simple.

Thanks

edit: hdc "c" I got the c from the boot log by scrolling up.

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Old 01-21-2005, 12:57 AM   #7
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Usually 'no init' errors are the result of improper unzipping. Are you unzipping directly to the partition? You may have problems if using winrar -try winzip or alzip instead.
 
Old 01-21-2005, 08:00 AM   #8
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sí es verdad yo utilicé winzip para abrir cremallera el paquete

Will put downloaded package on target drive - to be unzipped with winzip or alzip (if they have command line tool available).

Muchas Gracias Amigo

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Old 01-21-2005, 02:57 PM   #9
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No command line mode, I think -you don't have to place the downloaded file on the target drive -just unzip it directly there without copying the unzipped files.
 
  


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