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knickels
PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:01 pm 
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I've got a Toshiba HDD2168 (20Gb) HD. I booted DI_EFIKA off of a USB drive and installed debian on one partition of this HD (the other is waiting for QNX). Everything goes according to plan...

But then I reboot and OFW can't find the HD. So of course I can't "boot hd0:6 /boot/kernel_efika" as I want to. I've unplugged the HD and looked at it on a linux box (with a USB-IDE cable), and I can mount both ext2 filesystems just fine:
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> fdisk /dev/sdc

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2432.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdc: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2432 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc2 1 2432 19535008+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 2388 2432 361431 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc6 1 1193 9582678 83 Linux
/dev/sdc7 * 1194 2387 9590773+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
Command (m for help): q
I can also boot off the USB drive (into DI_EFIKA), then drop to a shell and mount the HD from within that shell, and everything is fine.

I've tried the HD both on-board and with the IDE-USB, same result.

So how do I get the OFW to recognize the HD so that I can boot off of it?

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:15 pm 
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I had same problem with a 2.5" samsung drive in my Pegasos 2 - I was unable to boot from the drive. The OF was even unable to see the drive but worked when I boot from CD or another HD. Funny thing is the same drive works fine in my Pegasos 1 with the old 0.1b firmware.

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knickels
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:04 pm 
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I'm beginning to think that more things have changed between the pegasus and efika than the people writing the documents think.

e.g. I was scouring for graphics cards listed as working with the Pegasus in the EFIKA book. I went through four before I found one that worked in graphical modes -- this may be the QNX and debian installers, also, I suppose.

In case anyone is interested, the first one had a radeon 9250 chipset (but wasn't that model, so maybe it doesn't count). The second two were SIS 6326's, one was DOA and one gave me a BIOS Banner but only worked in text mode. Finally, I broke down and bought an AGP Radeon 9200 SE - no dice, not even text mode on that one. Luckily, I stopped by a place I usually don't go (CompUSA) and saw a Radeon 9250, and picked it up, and it works fine. Whew, shouldn't be this hard :)

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:10 pm 
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I've got a Toshiba HDD2168 (20Gb) HD. I booted DI_EFIKA off of a USB drive and installed debian on one partition of this HD (the other is waiting for QNX). Everything goes according to plan...

But then I reboot and OFW can't find the HD. So of course I can't "boot hd0:6 /boot/kernel_efika" as I want to. I've unplugged the HD and looked at it on a linux box (with a USB-IDE cable), and I can mount both ext2 filesystems just fine
try "boot hd:6 boot/kernel_efika"
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DJBase
PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:31 am 
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try "boot hd:6 boot/kernel_efika"
Wouldn't help if the HD isn't found by the OF so if "ls /pci/ide" doesn't show the drive he won't be able to boot at all.

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try "boot hd:6 boot/kernel_efika"
Wouldn't help if the HD isn't found by the OF so if "ls /pci/ide" doesn't show the drive he won't be able to boot at all.
I don't think the problem is that the OF can't find the harddisk, just that it's not where you expect it. It seems that the numbering is a bit odd, so it shows as hd instead of hd0.
That's why I suggested to try boot hd:6 boot/kernel_efika
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:07 pm 
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try "boot hd:6 boot/kernel_efika"
Wouldn't help if the HD isn't found by the OF so if "ls /pci/ide" doesn't show the drive he won't be able to boot at all.
I don't think the problem is that the OF can't find the harddisk, just that it's not where you expect it. It seems that the numbering is a bit odd, so it shows as hd instead of hd0.
That's why I suggested to try boot hd:6 boot/kernel_efika
No, I've checked devalias and definitely have the correct device. When I 'ls hd' or 'ls hd:0' I hear the disk seek.

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Hi Kevin, we have the very same HD and it works. :)

You are trying to access the second disk (hd0) while you probably only have one disk on the ATA connector (hd). Please check in the EFIKA How-To on page 5 section III.5 ( http://www.efika.de/download/Efika.readme.pdf ).

If you still have trouble please email support@efika.de directly. You will have an answer! 8)

R&B :)

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Hi Kevin, we have the very same HD and it works. :)

You are trying to access the second disk (hd0) while you probably only have one disk on the ATA connector (hd). Please check in the EFIKA How-To on page 5 section III.5 ( http://www.efika.de/download/Efika.readme.pdf ).

If you still have trouble please email support@efika.de directly. You will have an answer! 8)

R&B :)
Perhaps I got my logs mixed up - I've had this HD and a USB key as hd and hd0 in both orientations (HD on-board or HD and USB on USB) - in one of them, ls hd does nothing and in the other ls hd0 does nothing - it follows the HD. OK, I'll follow up with support and report back here if I get anything useful - thanks!

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