SOLVED: bootstrap: panic: ... invalid IO size
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:24:42PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote:
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> > According to the documentation, the first hard drive, no matter what
> > else is in the system, is named hd0. The third partition (slice) on
> > this device would be hd0s3.
>
> Well, I don't have a SCSI device to check, but as I read in the Easy
> Guide, grub would know the third partition on the first SCSI drive as
> (hd0,2) (assuming you have no IDE drive on the system) but hurd would
> know the same partition by sd0s3 (vice hd0s3).
Yes. According to the documentation, that would be correct. On my
systems, it isn't.
> > According to GRUB, there is no hd0s3. It does find hd1s3 to have the
> > correct signatures, partition type and fs type. I suspect that the
> > BIOS may be lying about the devices so that it can boot the SCSI
> > disk.
>
> The grub 'find' command is useful (e.g., find /boot/gnumach.gz). IIRC,
> it'll return the grub name of the partition. It'll probably return the
> one you expect; it looks like the problem is getting the right hurd name
> for the kernel command.
Cool. Thanks for the tip.
> I'm not sure what to make of this. Perhaps it's trying to read a real
> device like the cdrom instead of a non-existent device so the error
> _should_ be different.
Here's the scoop. I reinstalled from the second machine using the
same steps as the first time. It booted OK. So, it's running
multi-user, booting from a GRUB floppy. The numbering is still
strange as this device is *still* numbered hd2 even though there are
no other IDE hard drives in the machine.
-M
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