some progress

[Kerry Hoath]

hda2 is not the zip drive. The reson I know this is because
hda2 is the second primary partition on the primary master controller.
Linux partitions work like this:
/dev/hda primary master (whole disk)
/dev/hdb primary slave (whole disk)
/dev/hdc secondary master (whole disk)
/dev/hdd secondary slave (whole disk)

/dev/hda1 primary partition 1 on primary master.
the number after the /dev/hd[a-h] designates partition 1-4 are the first 4 primaries
and 5 onwards are  the extended partitions.
Note that if you have an extended partiton (type 6) it takes one of the
1-4 primaries to store the first pointer.

zip disks formatted under dos usually show up as /dev/hdb4
i.e. the 4th primary partition oon the primary slave in your case.
Before you even try to boot zipslack you should review your kernel messages as the
machine boots and see if the zip drive is showing up at all.
If it is dos formatted try /dev/hdb4 for your root device.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 05:03:33PM -0600, Glenn Ervin wrote:
> This is regarding the problem loading zipspeak...
> I did change the line for root to HDA2 from HDB.
> When speakup reads the bootup screen it initially calls it HDB, but I got
> further, so that is why I think HDA2 is correct for the zip drive slaved off
> of HDA1.
> But now I have a different message, something like:
> ISOfs_read super bread failed
> on the line prior to this line, it mentions something about tracks and I
> think it said something about extending beyond the device.
> I may not be paraphrasing the last thing well, but the ISOfs line is
> correct, whatever it means.
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> "Live long and prosper",
> O. Glenn Ervin (Lenny)
> N0YJV
> Northeast Nebraska
> e-mail:
> GlennErvin at cableONE.net
> The above address can also be found on MSM.
> or my work e-mail:
> gErvin at ncbvi.state.ne.us
> 
> "Live long and prosper",
> O. Glenn Ervin (Lenny)
> N0YJV
> Northeast Nebraska
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> GlennErvin at cableONE.net
> The above address can also be found on MSM.
> or my work e-mail:
> gErvin at ncbvi.state.ne.us
> 
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