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rec9140
03-27-2005, 09:15 AM
In testing out the V3.8 CeBIT edition on my test linux machine, which has an ancient version of Knoppix on a 2nd HD on it as well as wimp98se on the primary. (I need to have wimp98 around for service needs.)

In booting up the live CD I've found that the FAT HD is read only.

Test Machine is an old FIC PA-2007 MB with a K6 340MHz w/160MB 2 HD and 2 CD's. I boot via a floppy for several reasons. Must use NODMA to boot, this is a 2007 BIOS issue, its fine when its set via HDPARM AFTER boot ( I do this on the present version of Knoppix installed), but its not in use at this time.

hda1 (c:) - FAT wimp98SE bootable
hda5 (d:) - FAT logical drive
hda6 (e:) - FAT logical drive
hda7 (f:) - FAT logical drive
hdc2 - ext2 Linux Knoppix V3.1 (ANCIENT)
hdc5 - swap

Here is the problem:
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda.
FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda.

So the FAT drive I have no problem using right now under the ancient Knoppix version I can not save to, so probably won't be able to do a hdinstall to with this problem.

Any ideas on correcting?

Is the present version on the second HD confusing the V3.8 CD?

dmesg:
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586a (rev 27) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6008-0x600f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC AC38400L, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 32X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: WDC AC34000L, ATA DISK drive
hdd: CRW6206A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdc: max request size: 128KiB
hdc: 7814016 sectors (4000 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=7752/16/63
hdc: cache flushes not supported
hdc: hdc1 hdc2
hdb: ATAPI 27X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 6X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 384kB Cache
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda.
FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.02
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 29809 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65562 bytes.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Registering unionfs version $Id: main.c,v 1.82 2005/02/08 15:17:38 cwright Exp $
Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed