cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) (08/16/89)
The subject line says it all: does anyone know what "pdinfo" is and how to validate it? The message comes on during my Sys V/386 installation process. Thanks, Clint -- | Clint Jeffery, U. of Arizona Dept. of Computer Science | cjeffery@arizona.edu -or- {noao allegra}!arizona!cjeffery --
darryl@ism780c.isc.com (Darryl Richman) (08/17/89)
In article <13272@megaron.arizona.edu> cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) writes: >The subject line says it all: does anyone know what "pdinfo" is and how >to validate it? The message comes on during my Sys V/386 installation >process. Not to worry. A pdinfo (defined in vtoc.h) is a Physical Disk INFOrmation block. The driver is complaining that it can't find one, which is natural if you haven't installed yet. It appears inside of the UNIX fdisk partition on V.3.2 systems, and in the first cylinder in V.3.0 systems. It did say WARNING, because this isn't necessarily an error. --Darryl Richman -- Copyright (c) 1989 Darryl Richman The views expressed are the author's alone darryl@ism780c.isc.com INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.-A Kodak Company "For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
darcy@bbm.UUCP (D'Arcy Cain) (08/17/89)
In article <13272@megaron.arizona.edu>, cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) writes: > > The subject line says it all: does anyone know what "pdinfo" is and how > to validate it? The message comes on during my Sys V/386 installation > process. I noticed the same message while installing Everex ENIX (ESIX?). Everex tech support tells me that it is a normal message during inokitialization and can be safely ignored. I assume that it would be a problem if the error showed up after initialization. D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@bbm, darcy@telly.on.ca!cain)