Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!ames!apple!sun-barr!sun!imagen!atari!portal!cup.portal.com!Chuck_M_Grandgent From: Chuck_M_Grandgent@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: 1.3 hard disk question Message-ID: <19749@cup.portal.com> Date: 22 Jun 89 01:48:40 GMT References: <19106@cup.portal.com> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 28 > Did you ever find the answer to this? I am having a similar problem. > I have two hard disks in my AT. One (the first one) I have reserved > for DOS. (DOS refuses to boot unless there is an active partition on > the first hard disk, so I gave it the whole thing.) The second disk is > for Minix. In Minix it is called /dev/hd5 and the partitions are > /dev/hd{6,7,8,9} > While booting -- during the copy root to ramdisk phase -- I get the27 to 3842 > diagnostic "Illegal partition table" (always at block 45 for some > reason) and partitions 6,7,8 and 9 all have length zero according to > "dd if=/dev/hd6 of=/dev/null" (where 6 = one of 6,7,8,9) DD claims > to have copied "0+0" records. I think I resolved my problem. I think (but havent confirmed) that I had one of my v1.2 header files (modified for my change) in place when I built the v1.3 kernel. Hence 1.3's attempt to use /dev/hd2 as the root device. I'm hoping that when I've got ALL 1.3 files in place when I build the kernel it'll be allright.... ======================================================================= Chuck_M_Grandgent@cup.portal.com sun!portal!cup.portal.com!chuck_m_grandgent K1OM AEG Modicon, Industrial Automation Systems Group North Andover/Concord Massachusetts =======================================================================