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On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Greg Patterson wrote:
> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 23:39:56 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Greg Patterson <gomer@gomer.mlink.net>
> To: Linux Kernel Mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Kernel "probable bad entry for /dev/hdc" w/ LILO 0.19
>
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> I am trying to convince my Linux kernel to boot with a 3rd EIDE drive
> added to my system. My system is set-up as follows:
>
> * AHA-2940UW controller with a 1.08gb SCSI-2 drive containing root
> partition for Linux.
>
> * On Primary IDE as Master (/dev/hda): 1.08gb EIDE drive containing
> Windows 95/NT 4.0/Linux Kernel 2.0.x zImage files and
> miscellaneous LILO boot files.
>
> * On Primary IDE as Slave (/dev/hdb): 3.1gb EIDE drive containing
> the /home and swap partitions.
>
> * On Secondary IDE as Master (/dev/hdc): 1.7gb EIDE drive containing
> more Linux partitions.
>
> * On Secondary IDE as Slave (/dev/hdd): NEC CD-ROM.
>
> When the system boots, the NT boot loader comes up with options to go
> "Linux", "Windows NT", "Windows 95". If "Linux" is chosen, then LILO
> comes up. Before adding the new 3.1gb drive, everything was working fine.
> After adding the drive, LILO stops with "LI".
>
> I am pretty sure that the drive translations for all the drives are good
> (all set to LBA). The proper HD sizes are recognized by all the drives
> while the system is booting (BIOS messages).
>
> I'm not trying to boot off of the 3rd drive. I just want to use it for
> file storage, etc. so I don't understand why LILO is complaining about
> having this 3rd drive. Currently the only way I can get into Linux is
> through a floppy boot disk.
>
> I get the following when running /sbin/lilo:
>
> Jun 15 22:32:03 gomer kernel: ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc
> Jun 15 22:32:03 gomer kernel: ide: to fix it, run:
> /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide
>
> These messages are coming from linux/drivers/block/ide.c. Even with these
> warnings I can access all the drives fine.
>
> Some of the /dev/hd* entries are as follows:
>
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Jun 13 21:08 hda
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Jun 13 21:08 hda1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 64 Jun 13 21:08 hdb
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 65 Jun 13 21:08 hdb1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Jun 13 21:08 hdc
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 1 Jun 13 21:08 hdc1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 64 Jun 13 21:08 hdd
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 65 Jun 13 21:08 hdd1
>
> These match what MAKEDEV.ide script produces.
>
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