Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!mimsy!jds
From: jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Hard disk with 1.2 (problems)
Message-ID: <12091@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 88 18:16:21 GMT
References: <2900@cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <2900@cs.utexas.edu> bunda@cs.utexas.edu (John Bunda) writes:
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|I then backed up the disk, reformatted (low-level with the WD
|BIOS formatter using debug), and used DOS (3.3 by the way) FDISK to
					    ^^^
|partition the drive.  I created a DOS partition and another
|"extended DOS partition" for Minix.  
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...
|
|Put in the root diskette and "=", the ram disk begins loading, meanwhile
|the hard drive begins what sounds like a major seek.  The whole show
|then comes to a screeching halt with the message "kernel panic - can't
|read partition table on drive 0"
|

Just a guess here, but I believe that DOS 3.3's "extended" partition hack
puts some incompatible cruft in the partition table that Minix's disk driver
doesn't understand.

Try repartitioning the disk using something other than DOS 3.3.

				- Jaime

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