saxmanbob
10-06-2003, 02:33 PM
Hello,
Newbie problem I'm afraid...
I have a Toshiba Satellite 1800 (Celeron 800 with 15Gb). Win XP with FAT32
Knoppix works fine if I start with DMA - otherwise it hangs on /etc/ in the startup script.
Unfortunately with DMA enabled no HD is recognised. When I try to add a persistent home on dev/hda I get the problem that "a filesystem must be specified" yet there seems nowhere to specify a filesystem.
I read another post here where HD wasn't found but that seemed to be a problem with a HD exceeding 40Gb.
I followed instructions in that post & ran sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda and get some info, incl (with apologies for proportional font):-
DEvice Boot ... ID System
/dev/hda1 * c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
then I ran
dmseg | grep hda
This gives various info including:-
ide_setup: hda-scsi
IDE0: bm-dma AT 0XEFF0-0XEFF7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
and also
hda: unknown partition table.
Sorry to be lost!
Rob
Newbie problem I'm afraid...
I have a Toshiba Satellite 1800 (Celeron 800 with 15Gb). Win XP with FAT32
Knoppix works fine if I start with DMA - otherwise it hangs on /etc/ in the startup script.
Unfortunately with DMA enabled no HD is recognised. When I try to add a persistent home on dev/hda I get the problem that "a filesystem must be specified" yet there seems nowhere to specify a filesystem.
I read another post here where HD wasn't found but that seemed to be a problem with a HD exceeding 40Gb.
I followed instructions in that post & ran sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda and get some info, incl (with apologies for proportional font):-
DEvice Boot ... ID System
/dev/hda1 * c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
then I ran
dmseg | grep hda
This gives various info including:-
ide_setup: hda-scsi
IDE0: bm-dma AT 0XEFF0-0XEFF7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
and also
hda: unknown partition table.
Sorry to be lost!
Rob