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Hello,

I have a P4, 2.4GHz, 256MB ASROCK mainboard: I am trying to install sco 5.0.5 on an 80gb hdd IDE [seagate].

I have tried the following techniques:


1. using the updated wd btld image- no success [signal 6 termination error]
2. defbootstr biosgeom [even though the bios correclty identifies the drive]
3. use interactive divvy, make adjustments using dkinit/dparam during installation - installs fine but boots with stage 1 failure. I have also tried to repair the stage 1 failure but I hit another strange problem- my emergency disks wont just boot! I have recreated them many times and no luck.
4. I have even tried booting "tools" at prompt using installation disk and running the debug program but cant mount the drive let alone run fsck!

Now this is probably my thirtieth sco 5.0.5 installation and I have had problems before but all my previous installations are working great, I have even installed several RAID upto 260GB but this one.....

Please help I have run out of ideas.

I appreciate your help

clarence
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hd

HD(4)							     Linux Programmer's Manual							     HD(4)

NAME

       hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices

DESCRIPTION

       The  hd*  devices  are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode.  The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major
       device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb.  The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and	the  slave
       hdd.

       General	IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the
       partition on that physical drive.  The first form, hdX, is used to address the whole drive.  Partition numbers are assigned  in	the  order
       the  partitions	are  discovered, and only non-empty, non-extended partitions get a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the
       four partitions described in the MBR (the `primary' partitions), regardless of whether they are unused or extended.  Thus, the first  logi-
       cal  partition  will be hdX5.  Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported.	You can have at most 63 partitions
       on an IDE disk.

       For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS `primary' partition on  the
       second one.

       They are typically created by:

	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2
	      ...
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66
	      ...
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72
	      chown root:disk /dev/hd*

FILES

       /dev/hd*

SEE ALSO

       mknod(1), chown(1), mount(8), sd(4)

Linux								    1992-12-17								     HD(4)