carty@dteng1.enet.dec.com (Hugh Carty) (04/09/91)
System is a 80286 with 20 mb hard disk.Booted system with #2 flopppy
disk ie AT disk
and entered date and time etc as boork says.
I 'm using 1.5 minix.
Now would like to use hard disk partition and my 4 mb of RAM.
So did fdisk -h4 -s17 /dev/hd0
came bak with three partitions.
I changed these to
/dev/hd0 20400
/dev/hd1 6800
/dev/hd2 14828 ie I wanted this as my RAM disk
sync.and reboot
Did a mkfs /dev/ho0 10200
mkfs /dev/hd1 3400
mkfs /dev/hd2 7414
and readall -b badblocks and there were none found
Did /etc/setup_root /dev/hd3 7414 10200 3400 7414 0
and this gave no indication that I did something wrong
Reboot and left # 2 in diskettte drive and now hit the =
key.Result panic .... error message came and went
almost immediately.
Rebooted machine and tried again but when now enter the = key
the system prints out at the bottom of the screen
Invalid partition table on Winchester 0
Cannot run mkfs on any partition other than hd0
mkfs /dev/hd1 3400 now returns
Unrecoverable writr error on devive 3/1 block 3399
error:File system is too big for minor device
Line 1 being processed when error detected.
I cannot get rid of this error on boot up and cannot find where menu is
referenced
is sources to see what it's looking for when you type the =.
Would love to get back to beginning or have I created a problem with the
disk now.
Hugh Cartycard@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) (04/09/91)
Hugh Carty <carty%DTENG1.ENET.DEC.COM@VM1.NoDak.EDU> says : > System is a 80286 with 20 mb hard disk.Booted system with #2 flopppy > disk ie AT disk > and entered date and time etc as boork says. > I 'm using 1.5 minix. > Now would like to use hard disk partition and my 4 mb of RAM. > So did fdisk -h4 -s17 /dev/hd0 > came bak with three partitions. > I changed these to > /dev/hd0 20400 > /dev/hd1 6800 > /dev/hd2 14828 ie I wanted this as my RAM disk > sync.and reboot > Did a mkfs /dev/ho0 10200 > mkfs /dev/hd1 3400 > mkfs /dev/hd2 7414 > > and readall -b badblocks and there were none found > Did /etc/setup_root /dev/hd3 7414 10200 3400 7414 0 > and this gave no indication that I did something wrong > Reboot and left # 2 in diskettte drive and now hit the = > key.Result panic .... error message came and went > almost immediately. > Rebooted machine and tried again but when now enter the = key > the system prints out at the bottom of the screen > Invalid partition table on Winchester 0 > Cannot run mkfs on any partition other than hd0 > mkfs /dev/hd1 3400 now returns > Unrecoverable writr error on devive 3/1 block 3399 > error:File system is too big for minor device > Line 1 being processed when error detected. /dev/hd0 is used to access all the disk, not the first partition. You must never use it to create a file system !!! /dev/hd1 is the first partition of the disk. When you create a file system on hd0, you corrupt then partition table at the beginning of the disk so you can't use it. You have to use fdisk to re-create the partition table and then you can create your file systems on hd1, hd2, hd3. +-----------------------------------o--------------------------------------+ | Remy CARD | E-mail : card@masi.ibp.fr | | Universite Pierre et Marie Curie | | | Laboratoire MASI, CNRS UA 818 | | | 4 Place Jussieu | Tel : +33 (1) 44.27.34.23 | | F-75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 | Fax : +33 (1) 44.27.62.86 | | FRANCE | Telex : UPMCSIX 200-145 F | +-----------------------------------o--------------------------------------+