Have done several things:
1/ Slackware 8.0 uses lilo 21.7.5, however the altered lilo was for 21.7.3.
Managed to obtain the "vanilla" 21.7.3 as well as the 21.7.3-Hacked version.
Took a diff between both versions and successfully applied this diff to the
21.7.5 source. Then took a diff between the vanilla 21.7.5 source and the
hacked version to obtain the most accurate patches. Successfully rebuild and
installed the hacked 21.7.5 lilo.
2/ Installed the compiled 2.4.9-ac5 kernel onto a boot disk using the hacked
version of the 21.7.5 lilo - obtained no errors!
3/ Obtained, patched and compiled the 2.4.9 kernel (using the -ac5 patch).
Moreover, I did follow the kernel configuration instructions. However, I am
still wondering this is part of the problem.
4/ Tested the 2.4.9-ac5 kernel
Prior to my hardware reconfiguration (changed because of a faulty hard drive
and an underpowered power supply) - the /dev/ataraid/d0 worked - I had only
one Promise raid entry (raid 0 -striped) and the system detected all
partitions correctly).
5/ I have tried with the 2.4.9-ac5. Still the same problem as previously
outlined. My results for this attempt:
fdisk -l (for 2.4.9-ac5 - also included the fdisk results for
/dev/ataraid/d0):
a) fdisk -l
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by
w(rite)
Disk /dev/hdg doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 6 925 7389900 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde2 926 14952 112671877+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hde3 * 1 5 40131 6 FAT16
/dev/hde5 ? 260095 102535 881886022+ 86 NTFS volume set
Disk /dev/hdg: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 53614 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Disk /dev/hdh: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdh1 1 7300 58637218+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdh2 7301 7476 1413720 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdh5 7301 7476 1413688+ 82 Linux swap
b) fdisk -l /dev/ataraid/d0
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by
w(rite)
Disk /dev/ataraid/d0: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/ataraid/d0p1 1 7300 58637218+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/ataraid/d0p2 7301 7476 1413720 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/ataraid/d0p5 209607 240215 245858602+ 55 EZ-Drive
dmesg results:
APIC routing
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fc2b0
PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:c2e0, dseg at f0000
PnP: 14 devices detected total
PNPBIOS: request ports [PNP0c01]:
PNPBIOS: request ports [PNP0c02]: 0xe400-0xe480 0xe800-0xe840
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Simple Boot Flag extension found and enabled.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
devfs: v0.107 (20010709) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
PnPBIOS: Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0401 at io=0378,0778 irq=7 dma=3
0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 8
0x378: readIntrThreshold is 8
0x378: PWord is 8 bits
0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x00
0x378: ECP settings irq=<none or set by other means> dma=<none or set by
other means>
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
parport0: cpp_mux: aa55f00f52ad51(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_mux: aa55f00f52ad51(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport_pc: Strange, can't probe Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378, irq=-1,
dma=-1
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: queued sectors max/low 510040kB/378968kB, 1536 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 94152K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:04.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 68
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:04.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:09.0
PDC20267: chipset revision 2
PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER
Mode.
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x6800-0x6807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x6808-0x680f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 88
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0b.0
PDC20265: chipset revision 2
PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit DISABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
ide4: BM-DMA at 0x5000-0x5007, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio
ide5: BM-DMA at 0x5008-0x500f, BIOS settings: hdk:pio, hdl:DMA
hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 012, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: IBM-DTLA-307060, ATA DISK drive
hdg: IBM-DTLA-307060, ATA DISK drive
hdh: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0x8000-0x8007,0x7802 on irq 3
ide3 at 0x7400-0x7407,0x7002 on irq 3
hde: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63,
UDMA(100)
hdg: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63,
UDMA(100)
hdh: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63,
UDMA(100)
hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0:<7>LDM: DEBUG (ldm.c, 877):
validate_partition_table: Found basic MS-DOS partition, not a dynamic disk.
[PTBL] [7476/255/63] p1 p2 < > p3
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0:<7>LDM: DEBUG (ldm.c, 857):
validate_partition_table: No MS-DOS partition found.
unknown partition table
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target1/lun0:<7>LDM: DEBUG (ldm.c, 877):
validate_partition_table: Found basic MS-DOS partition, not a dynamic disk.
[PTBL] [7476/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 >
paride: aten registered as protocol 0
paride: bpck registered as protocol 1
paride: comm registered as protocol 2
paride: dstr registered as protocol 3
paride: epat registered as protocol 4
paride: epia registered as protocol 5
paride: frpw registered as protocol 6
paride: friq registered as protocol 7
paride: fit2 registered as protocol 8
paride: fit3 registered as protocol 9
paride: k951 registered as protocol 10
paride: k971 registered as protocol 11
paride: ktti registered as protocol 12
paride: on20 registered as protocol 13
paride: on26 registered as protocol 14
pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
pda: Autoprobe failed
pd: no valid drive found
pcd: pcd version 1.07, major 46, nice 0
pcd0: Autoprobe failed
pcd: No CD-ROM drive found
pf: pf version 1.04, major 47, cluster 64, nice 0
pf0: Autoprobe failed
pf: No ATAPI disk detected
pt: pt version 1.04, major 96
pt0: Autoprobe failed
pt: No ATAPI tape drive detected
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Compaq CISS Driver (v 2.4.5)
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
ataraid/d0:<7>LDM: DEBUG (ldm.c, 877): validate_partition_table: Found
basic MS-DOS partition, not a dynamic disk.
p1 p2 < >
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.02
Drive 0 is 58644 Mb
Drive 1 is 58644 Mb
Raid array consists of 2 drives.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
md: linear personality registered
md: raid0 personality registered
md: raid1 personality registered
md: raid5 personality registered
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 1498.400 MB/sec
32regs : 1405.600 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 2597.200 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 3320.800 MB/sec
raid5: using function: p5_mmx (3320.800 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version LVM 0.9.1_beta7(ish) by Heinz Mauelshagen (20 June 2001)
lvm -- Driver successfully initialized
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 43690)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,60)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.18a
PCI: Enabling device 00:09.0 (0004 -> 0007)
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:04.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:0d.0
eth0: D-Link DFE-538TX (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xf0807000, 00:50:ba:4d:b3:61,
IRQ 3
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
NTFS version 1.1.17
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-36, errno = 2
6/ The promise controller (at power up time) has two entries:
a/ The 2-identical drives as raid 0 (striped) indicated first, followed by:
b/ The 2nd drive standalone as raid 0 (striped).
I reviewed the ataraid source files that the ac5 patch put in. From
inspecting the code, I can determine why I get the lines:
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.02
Drive 0 is 58644 Mb
Drive 1 is 58644 Mb
in the dmesg output because of the two entries (under the "old"
configuration there was one).
The code detects to two entries for the raid controller, hence the loop goes
through twice and two lines of output (the two entries are "coincidental" to
the two entries the FastTrak bios prints at power up).
I am wondering if there is a problem with ac5 patched fast trak stuff. Could
this be because the code has to look across several "Drives" to find the
partition information and it cannot do this properly? What else can I do to
assist you, to help me and others, get a successful operation of this code?
Incidently, does the fdisk program need patching as well - could this be the
cause of the problem?
Even tried (as an experiment) the 2.4.* SMP drivers supplied by promise -
but obviously they wouldn't load.
Alan
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Arjan,
The "/dev/ataraid/d0" is my short-form for all the devices in /dev/ataraid,
e.g.,
/dev/ataraid/d0p0, /dev/ataraid/d0p1 etc.
I wanted to verify the partitions before starting an install. Therefore,
initially, I used:
"fdisk -l" (all fdisk operations used the Linux fdisk) to get the partition
information, just to verify what devices I would be then using.
Then I can use fdisk -l <device> to do the final verification.
However, I cannot install Linux until I see a Linux native partition
(obvious). That is where I am stuck, hence my fdisk results and the dmesg
results.
Sorry for any confusion.
Alan
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:14:30AM -0600, Alan Miles wrote:
> Arjan, I appreciate your reply. OK know I know about the lilo. BTW, I was
> aware that I needed to use /dev/ataraid/p0, NOT hde/hdg, but thanks for
> reminding me anyway.
>
> I now have my "fdisk" results.
>
> fdisk (from 2.4.8-ac7):
>
> Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
> Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
> Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by
> w(rite)
> Disk /dev/hdg doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hde1 * 6 925 7389900 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hde2 926 14952 112671877+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hde3 1 5 40131 16 Hidden FAT16
> /dev/hde5 ? 260095 102535 881886022+ 86 NTFS volume set
>
> Disk /dev/hdg: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 53614 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
>
> Disk /dev/hdh: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdh1 1 7300 58637218+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hdh2 7301 7476 1413720 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hdh5 7301 7476 1413688+ 82 Linux swap
>
what does "fdisk /dev/ataraid/d0" do ?
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