From owner-aic7xxx Tue Mar 24 03:07:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA10738 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 03:07:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paperboy.ids.net (paperboy.ids.net [155.212.1.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA10733 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 03:07:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikebw@bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net) Received: from bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (uucp@localhost) by paperboy.ids.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id GAA17371; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 06:01:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (uugate-034-OS/2-230); Tue, 24 Mar 98 11:00:35 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 98 10:42:00 -0000 Message-ID: <5178de01@bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net> From: mikebw@bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (Mike Bilow) Subject: external SCSI disk problems To: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: mikebw@bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net X-Mailer: uugate 0.34 (OS/2 2.30) Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk John Eichelsdorfer wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: JE> Forgot to mention that when I attempt to install Linux 5.0 JE> using system commander in MBR and Linux in First partition JE> of second hard drive, that the Linux loads. The problem JE> occurs when rebooting that the partitions are increased by JE> an ID count of 10 (hidden) and can't boot with System JE> Commander into the partition. Hoping there is something JE> related between these two problems. JE> I am not quite as learned on 2940 as many here, but would JE> appreciate any help. Your SCSI controller is not editing your partition tables. Some operating systems do not support having more than one primary partition visible at a time. In such cases, IBM's OS/2 Boot Manager established the practice of marking all but one primary partition as "hidden" by increasing the type field of a DOS-format partitions by 10. Other boot utilities, such as System Commander, understand this same protocol. If you use System Commander, you cannot install Lilo into the MBR. If you want to use Lilo as your boot manager instead of System Commander, read the Lilo HOWTO document. You cannot use both System Commander and Lilo without a certain amount of very careful configuration. -- Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message