Re: crest.d.o and m68k.d.o
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:23:15PM +0100, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
>
> > In Linux, the new disk works fine, in AmigaOS the HDToolbox can see it,
> > change partitions, boot priorities, etc, but the Amiga partitions do not
> > show up in AmigaOS, even after a reboot, so I can not format them, or is
> > there a tool to format amiga partitions from AmigaOS?
>
> Sure, there's the tool cleverly named "format" that does the job :)
>
> However - your disk is what.. 250GB?
> My guess is that your scsi.device and filesystem handler are not updated
> to handle more than 4GB disks and 2GB partitions.
>
> But do you need that?
> If the point here is to have a linux/m68k system and only need amiga
> partition for amiboot and kernels, you should prepare a tiny amigaos
> partition at the very start of the disk, smaller than 2GB. That should be
> recognizable from AmigaOS and also be formattable.
>
> If you really need lots of amiga partitions, you need to update your
> system with newer scsi.device that handles large disks, and new filesystem
> that handles large filesystems.
Ok, I give up, the Amiga 3000 and 4000 do not like the disk in AmigaOS, they
are simply invisible. hdsetup did something to the disk, created two (large)
partitions on it, but after a reboot, they disappeared again. I connected
the disk to my Amiga2000 and could install AmigaOS from it with no problems,
the Amiga even boots from it (the other disks in the A2k have vanished, but
that is another problem that came from playing too much with hdtoolbox, I
hope that can be solved, too). When I reconnect the disk to the A3k, it
simply does not show up in AmigaOS, very strange.
So I will (re)move the floppy in kullervo, so that the IDE disk/converter
can be mounted internally. The cover should fit on the case again then. The
floppy drive seems to be broken, so it will probably not be missed.
Wouter, are you still interested in hosting crest (tower case, needs to lie
flat, at least in my appartment, it was standing upright in Duesseldorf, but
here the magnetic field lines are much more tilted than in D, maybe it does
not like that)? crest also needs to boot from the old disk, but it has been
working fine. I did not upgrade the root system, it still runs a 2.4 kernel,
without problems I guess. I had updated kullervo to etch and it was running
a 2.6 kernel fine. I don't know, if this is wanted for crest also.
Michael, any hints about the covers for crest? BTW kullervos email to you is
rejected, it is sent directly, not via my ISP, so it is classified as
spam...
Christian
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