Re: [OT] Installing muLinux from floppy

From: Renato (renato@jfrj.gov.br)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 14:10:03 CET


Hi, winsor,

I already went to manufacturer site and downloaded the HD user manual.
Master setting is jumpers off.
Unfortunately, with no jumpers at all, the HD is still being recognized as slave.
I think its controller isn't working fine.

renato

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On 26/01/00 at 20:52 winsor wrote:

>Renato,
>
>Is there any particular reason you can't make this HDD a master???
>I know that the difference between slave and master usually lies in the
>jumper settings.
>If you need jumper settings you can go to
>http://www.blue-planet.com
>They have a fairly complete list of both new and old hard disks along
>with all the setup parameters and jumper settings.....
>
>good luck
>
>signed
>winsor
>
>
>Renato wrote:
>>
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>> On 26/01/00 at 19:23 Michele Andreoli wrote:
>>
>> >On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:40:15PM -0200, Renato nicely wrote:
>> >> Michele,
>> >>
>> >> I am trying to make a Frankenstein based on an good old mainboard (386DX40 + 8M) and a 40MB laptop hard disk, without floppy drive (unfortunately I have no working 5-1/4 floppies anymore).
>> >> I cloned a UMSDOS mulinux installation to the HD but I could not configure it to work as master drive.
>> >> Do you know if the procedure you sugest below would work if I used root=/dev/hdb1 (first slave HD partition eith no master HD)?
>> >>
>> >
>> >I can't understand what you means. You trasported an UMSDOS pkzipped
>> >installation in a new machine?
>>
>> No. I boot mulinux from floppy (I install a temporary floppy drive), configure and then cloned into the DOS formated HD (recognized as slave). Then I see I cannot boot DOS from slave HD (to start mulinux with linux.bat) neither force hardware to recognize the HD as master.
>> >
>> >If it's true, you have to do TWO think to rewake the new system
>> >
>> >1. change loadling.cfg with the new root=/dev/XYZ ...
>> >2. rm /dev/root ; ln -s /dev/XYZ /dev/root
>> >
>> >Step 2 requires a working muLinux. Mount the umsdos partition
>> >from the floppy-mulinux and do the changes.
>> >
>> >Michele
>> >
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