cfdisk not working with 486/DTC
I am trying to install Debian Linux 1.1 on my 486/80, 12meg RAM, 1.3gig
SCSI HD, DTC3280 SCSI controller. After booting off my boot (Linux
kernal 2.0.0) and root floppies and getting to the cfdisk 0.8d BETA, I
run into problems. I try setting up some partitions and Write the table,
it complains about "sda: unknown partition table". If I leave cfdisk and
re-enter, it generally complains about "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary
partition" and kicks me out of cfdisk. My only recourse is to boot up
DOS and wipe out sector 0 of the hard drive using Norton Utilities or
similar. Fortunately, I had my hard drive backed up.
Apparently, cfdisk is not writing the partition table properly. I have
tried it with my 1.3gig HD (Hitachi DK516C-16) and also tried it with my
iomega Zip drive with the same results.
This is the same setup I used for DOS/Windows with no problems. Any ideas?
David Godshall, davidg@hesston.edu
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