Installing Mitsumi 7-n-1 Floppy
Done plenty of searching but cannot find any info on the web with detailed instructions. This is a Mitsumi FA404M 7-n-1 Floppy USB drive oem version. The floppy cable port on the back of the drive has only 4 or 5 pins on the bottom row. I'm assuming I have to use the floppy wire harness and connect the USB cable but do I have to connect the power cable? I'm assuming yes because it is their. But I question it because the latest model on the Mitsumi web site says it draws all of it's operating power through the USB port. Is anyone using this floppy drive? Thanks.
Wonkanoby, Thanks for the confirmation. Just to be safe I will boot up first time without USB cable connected. If there is a recognition problem I will plug in cable but that leaves me with the delima that obviously I won't have an operating system intalled (WinXP) to operate the USB floppy. I'll see. Hopefully it's all for not. Judging by the amount of posts you have you are real active here. That's great! It's nice to get help when a person needs it.
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title pretty much says it all. I have a resonably old computer that cant boot off of usb. and i want to install it to a usb hdd. I dont have a cd drive so i will have to use the floppy network install (i did this before). This is the only distro that I know of that has a floppy install. i have searched but the wiki search brings up like 500 results that are irrelevant. so in short this is what i need:
a floppy to be able to boot from a usb hdd
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How to install WinXP on SATA without floppy drive?
Hi.
Is it possible to install WinXP on PC (with SATA) without floppy drive?
WinXP installer itself doesn't recognize SATA controller, so floppy disk with drivers is included.
But my PC doesn't have any floppy drive (what a relic. none of new PCs should contain a floppy).
How could I install WinXP on my PC? (without buying & mounting floppy drive).
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dear list,
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Jeremy,
If you are having to do that all the time, then there is something else wrong with your computing habbits.
Richard
I used to try out programs on my old laptop and some of them weren't as clean as I had hoped. So I used to reinstall windows on it all the time. Luckily windows had all the drivers for my laptop so I didn't have to slipstream the drivers, but I probably reinstalled windows every other week. I just figured it was better to try a program on a computer that I didn't rely on rather than my main rig.
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WinXP PRO install issue with SATA RAID floppy on P45D3
Hello,
My objective is to set up 2 RAID volumes (one in RAID0 + one in RAID1) using Intel RAID Matrix Manager.
After having enabled RAID mode on BIOS, created the 2 RAID volumes and pressed F6 at the beginning of WinXP PRO installation without any problem, I am stuck when one file from Intel SATA RAID driver floppy needs to be written on the disk.
The problem appears after having confirmed the partition I want to install WinXP on. I got the following message:
"Cannot write iaStor.sys" . And I have to cancel the installation.
I do not know where this file has to be written ... Additionally, this file was perfectly read (and written somewhere) just after having pressed "S" and provided the floppy during the first phase of WinXP installation.
Any suggestion to help me ?
Thanks
My config (partial):
- P45 D3 Platinum with E8500 Dual Core
- 2G DDR3
- 2x 500G SATA2 HDDQuote from: didierpilon
How did you solved this ?
I Googled and found this page which was very useful (the blue text is a link; you can click on it).
In fact I already knew how to do it using nLite (which I normally use), but now I tried their F6 floppy advice for educational purposes and that worked as well!
Key is that the files have to be present twice, on different locations on the floppy... -
KT6V install XP Sp2 Sata NO FLOPPY? nlite help?
I've been going nuts trying to install XP SP2 onto a SATA drive. Basically the XP2 install CD loads and says there are no hard drives found.
The floppy controller on my KT6V seems to be dead (never used it before).
So I've been trying to create a customized XP install using nlite with no luck.
I've created three CDs now but none of them see the hard drive.
The SATA hard drive was formatted and is visible in my Win2000 system. I power down, unplug the Win2K drive, and then boot from the CD to try to install XP on the new drive.
Can anyone walk me through what it takes to create an nlite customized install that includes the SATA drivers so I can install without a floppy? (I would love to meet the programmer that decided drivers could only be loaded from a floppy...)
Thanks.Quote from: Stu on 21-August-06, 07:06:41
http://www.nliteos.com/guide/index.html
That's where I started 3 days ago!
Maybe some more specific questions.
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NT4? NT5?
From which folder?
DRVDISK?
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Installing and configuring 2.88MB floppy disk drives
Hi There,
I have couple of questions. So if you can help me with those,
it is greatly appreciated becuase it is extremely hard to find
something on sun's website.
I am running Solaris 2.6 on my intel (x86) machine
(what a rookie? huh).
Questions:
1)- If I get 2.88MB floppy drive, do solaris give
me any problem with that? Which documentation
should I look for this.
2)- Same as question # 1 but I want to install
Iomega ZIP 100.
3)- I want to install a modem on my solaris,
which modem should I choose? Is there any
modem in the market that comes with the
installation manuel for Solaris and initialization
strings, etc.
If you can point me to the right directions with
those questions, that would be really appreciated.
Please "Cc" or "Bcc" your message to "[email protected]"
while replying to this message. I hope you have
a nice day.
PS: Don't tell me to go to access1.sun.com for my
questions, because there is nothing there or there
is something but it is invisable to human eye.
Alptekin "Alp" Cakircali
[email protected]I can only answer the easiest question, #3. Any external serial modem would be the best solution. There are a good number of interal modems that are not Plug-And-Pray...but if the modem fails, you will have to power down, pop the top on the computer, and switch out the internal modem. I've had that happen twice (yeah, the house I'm renting has bad wiring and it shows it lightning storms). You might end up spending $50.00 more for an external but you will get a sense of security especially with the lights letting you know what's going on. It's just easier to troubleshoot coming from a support point of view.
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Would you be willing to install WinXP using a floppy and driver w/ BootCamp
I think Apple may be able to provide us full SATA compatibility quickly if they were willing to program the AHCI controller device in enhanced AHCI mode.
This would require us to install (reinstall) windows and use a USB floppy to install the intel AHCI drivers, since they are not a part of WinXP. This is generally what users of the server-class Intel motherboards have to do if they want full SATA performance.
Users who are not accustomed to WinXP installation may find this too difficult.
Perhaps instead of a BIOS set up, Apple can provide an OS X utility that allows configuration of certain system resources. Many WinTel manufacturers provide similar utilities, to simplify BIOS setup. Such a utility would allow more advanced users to enable enhanced-AHCI mode, while the mess experienced users can continue to work in PIO mode.
If you are interested in learning more about the Intel SATA controller in the WinTel environment, you can find more information in the following links:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/serialATA_FAQ.mspx
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/cs-021736.htm
ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/manuals/30144401.pdf (Not specific to the 5000X chipset, but AHCI is a standard across multiple intel chipsets)
Mac Pro 2.66 Mac OS X (10.4.7)The real problem with the Mac Pro and Windows right now is how it sets up the SATA controller device in the CSM, I believe.
Apple can fix this one of 2 ways:
1. Give us PATA emulation with full DMA support, but this does not give us SATA NCQ.
2. Give us Enhanced AHCI support, with NCQ, but this requires us to install an intel driver at windows install time using a USB floppy.
I believe #2 shouldn't be hard for apple to implement, but it makes Windows harder to install. That is why I called for an OS X application that lets the user choose which mode they want the SATA controller to run in.
I included the links above as background material into the full problem, from how to program the device in a BIOS (or CSM) to installing the drivers.
I am asking people, if Apple could provide a firmware update, would you be willing to install Windows again using a USB floppy and driver, or would you rather wait for PATA emulation with DMA support.
I previously wrote a posting that describes this problem:
I have spent a few days researching SATA, and how it is handled under Windows, especially Intel's implementation. Intel is pushing a standardized controller interface called AHCI. AHCI does support legacy PATA emulation. In WinTel platform, it is a requirement of the BIOS to configure the AHCI device properly. The AHCI PCI device will present different PCI subcodes depending if it is running in PATA or native mode. These PCI subcodes are used to choose the appropriate driver at boot time.
For best performance, SATA wants to run in native mode which, on the Mac Pro platform, means running the controller device in AHCI mode. AHCI fully supports DMA as well as Native Command Queuing (NCQ). Combining these two technologies give the best performance.
The PATA emulation can support DMA, depending on the actual BIOS implementation. PATA can not support NCQ.
With Boot Camp, Apple is providing a BIOS layer on top of EFI, the new standard for low-level PC firmware. This layer is called a CSM (Compatibility Support Module). I believe the CSM is not programming the device to enter AHCI mode. Also, the CSM is not providing anything other than Programmed I/O (PIO or non-DMA) in their PATA emulation support.
How do we work around this? I don't know. I am hoping to bring others into this discussion to see if we can figure something out. Considering Apple released Boot Camp 1.1 with the same flaw, I don't believe we can expect them to resolve this issue soon.
Putting the device in AHCI mode may present more difficult problems for Apple. They will have to change their CSM to support loading the boot sector using AHCI instead of PATA protocols.
There is one other thing to note, when you boot with device in AHCI mode, and then install Windows, you must install a 3rd party driver provided by Intel at installation time. Pressing the F6 key early on in the install process, inserting a floppy, which contains the driver, and then choosing the driver for installation. The CSM will have to support USB floppies (I have not tested to see if it does, yet). It also means that any user that currently has Windows installed will have to reinstall Windows once we determine how to put the device in AHCI mode.
If we were willing to give up NCQ, it might be easier for Apple to extend their CSM to include better PATA emulation. We may be limited to 100MB/s, or 133MB/s at best. This is more than enough bandwidth to support any single drive.
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Installing software that was originally on a floppy
I have some older software that i would like to install on my iMac G5 (to use in Classic mode). It is on a floppy. I figure I can email the disk contents to myself, but I seem to remember that you have to make some sort of disk image for the installer to work. I think i tried some time ago to do that, but it wasn't successful. I probably am not doing it right. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
ThanksHi, lindsey.
If you have a floppy drive — and it sounds like you do — then you could try simply installing the software from the floppy disk. See "Mac OS X 10.4 Help: Installing applications made for Mac OS 9."
Floppy drives are notoriously slow under Mac OS X, but the instructions above should work. Note that applications made for Mac OS 8.x, or those that require direct access to the hardware, such as games designed for Mac OS 9 and earlier, may not work in Classic, meaning you may also be unable to install them.
If you don't have a floppy drive, a generic USB floppy drive can be purchased cheaply at any computer store, e.g. CompUSA, Fry's Electronics, etc. My wife has a Targus model PA905 external USB floppy drive that works quite nicely both with our Macs and her work-provided Dell laptop running Windows.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X -
Floppy drive problem in Win2000 and older
Hi,
I have a problem with floppy. Does'n regonize where problem is (Driver, Controller,BIOS...).
Configuration:
Intel Pentium 4 HT 2,8GHz Prescott (some models have 3,0GHz Prescott)
MSI 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728 Ver:2)
2x256MB DDR400 Kingstone working in DualChannel mode
GeForce 4 MX 440 with AGP 8x
3COM Fast Etherlink 3C905-TX-M
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital (some models have Audigy)
Mitsumi (some models APLS) Floppy drive 3.5" 1,44MB
HDD Western Digital Caviar WD800JB or Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 60GB
Case with AXT Power Supply 300W (some models have Fortron)
Symptoms:
- Floppy read disks without problems on any OS
- Floppy can't write any data to disks on Win2000, Win98, SuSE91
- Floppy writing data without problem if you have WinXP-SP1 and SP2
- Data writed on any OS without WinXP making disk unusable (format on WinXP will make disk useless)
* Writing data - Create folder, copy files, format disk
Tested without resolution problem:
- Change disk is irelevant
- Change Floppy Drive is irelevant
- Change floppy data cable is irelevant
- Using WinXP drivers for FDD and LPC Controller in Win2000 does'n work
- Update OS (without XP) does'n help
- Updating BIOS does'n help
Thanx
Petr Lukas
CR Ministry of HealthSorry, all periferials are set to enabled with defined ports etc.
Yea, trying move floppy between working pc and this crazy machines and its indepedent on any floppy drive, floppy disk and fdc cable... This is true...
When you boot another system, floppy is connected, reading is ok. But when you try to write anything, system report "Incorrect parameter" and that's all...
I managing network with Win2K/XP/98/Suse91/HP-UX10 with exchange/oracle and now more resolution of this type of problem, but this problem is absolutly independence on anything...
And with OS, this problem we have about 2 moths ago. Before I post it here, try install licenced systems on this pc. Trying win2000 (on this system we found the problem) after then try win98, suse91 and oldest msdos 6.22. No one of this systems can work. But last suggestion, Prescott procesor made in system some differet. Next week we try change processor type Prescott to Northwood. Some people say its work...
I post it new info, when we have new resolution of this (i think incredible) change processor.
To your
Thanx lot for your resolutions.... Anything we try........ -
Fresh Install of Win XP Pro SATA Driver's don't work
Hello
I apologise first of all if this is posted in the wrong forum but as this is the motherboard I am using here goes: ( System configuration is in signature)
I recently purchased a Seagate SATA HDD 160gb and fitted to the VIA 8237 chipset Sata_1 connection. Then the problems begin...
SATA is enabled in the BIOS onchip (not the Promise controller)
Press F6 during installation of Win XP Pro and install VIA 8237 SATA RAID driver - from USB external floppy drive - for Win XP and continue installation. After Formatting the hard drive the installation now asks for me to insert the diskette again and press enter 'Please insert the VIA Combo RAID Driver Diskette', and I do so and press enter...nothing happens!!! I have tried using the disk provided with the board and have also made a disk from the drives at the MSI website, both to no avail.
I have also tried this process with the Promise controller i.e. attaching the drive to the Ser_3 connection and installing the drivers from the floppy during XP install and yet again I am requested to insert the floppy labelled Promise 579/518 Controller, and again when I do nothing happens.
I would appreciate any help you could give as I now have no PC to use and want to get this sorted asap.
ThanksI have always left the floppy in the drive from boot, only trying otherwise when it kept failing. However could it be to do with the fact this is an external Floppy drive connected by USB that it wont take it? I notice there is not any activity from the floppy drive, no matter whether I take the disk out and re-insert or just leave it there.
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Installing grub2 1.99rc1 on Linux Software RAID (/dev/md[0-x])
Hello!
In the last days I tried to install Archlinux x64 on my server. This server consists of 4 SATA drives. I'm using Linux software Raid with the following configuration:
mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --auto=yes --level=10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md1 --auto=yes --level=10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdd2
mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md2 --auto=yes --level=0 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdd3
md0 --> / including /boot
md1 --> /data (my storage partiton)
md2 --> my swap partion
In the last step of the installer I don't installed grub and leave the installer without installing a bootloader.
I mounted the /dev folder to /mnt/dev and chrooted in my new system:
chroot /mnt bash
In my new system I installed the new grub2 bootloader with:
pacman -S grub2-bios
In the next step I tried to install the bootloader to the MBR with the following command:
grub_bios-install --boot-directory=/boot --no-floppy --recheck /dev/md0
But I get the following error:
/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk.
Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/md0 failed.
Please report this together with the output of "/sbin/grub-probe --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to <[email protected]>
I also tried to install the grub2 directly on my discs with the following command:
grub_bios-install --boot-directory=/boot --no-floppy --recheck /dev/sda
But the error is the same as above.
Following the instruction of the error message I executed the following command:
/sbin/grub-probe --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map
I get a large debug output:
/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd3,msdos2 for LVM.
/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd3 is 3907029168.
/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd3,msdos1 for LVM.
/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd3 is 3907029168.
/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd4 for LVM.
/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd4 is 2068992.
/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd4 is 2068992.
/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd4,msdos1 for LVM.
/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd4 is 2068992.
/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to /dev.
/sbin/grub-probe: info: opening md0.
/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk.
There is a tutorial for installing grub2 at ArchLinux in the wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub2
But I can't find any solution for my problem.
Does anybody know a solution for this problem?
Thanks for help
Best regards,
Flasher
Last edited by Flasher (2011-03-03 20:13:13)hbswn wrote:Maybe it cannot handle the new mdadm format. Here the other partitions have version 0.90. Only the failing md0 has version 1.2:
I'm sure it is the cause of the problem. But not new format. The old one (0.90) is incompatible with grub2.
I hit the same problem and today I managed to fix it.
What I did: I copied /boot to tmp directory, destroyed /dev/md0 (my /boot) with metadata 0.90, created new /dev/md0 (metadata 1.2), copied back /boot content.
After that, grub_bios-install /dev/sda && grub_bios-install /dev/sdb finished without any errors. -
[VIDEO TUTORIAL] Installing Arch Linux on GPT/LVM/GRUB2
Hello everyone,
I've recently switched over from running my machine on LVM with a MSDOS partition style, and I was tired of the limitations of it. Such as 4 primary partions or 3 primary and 1 extended. It was also hindering my flexibility since I had to make 1 primary partition that was /boot, which forced me to make an initram image if I wanted to put my / inside of the LVM. The only way I could truly fix all my problems was to move away from GRUB-Legacy (Which I love since it's so easy to configure) over to GRUB 2(Which is not as bad as I thought it was).
I made this video to help people trying to do this combination. I also included the links to further information in the videos' description. It contains a link to GRUB 2 Architecture and moving over to GRUB (on IBM's site), and also ArchWiki resources for further reading.
I hope you enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69X9ZYA41xU
After you finish doing this, you will end up with this style:
GPT Partition Layout w/ Protective MBR.
/dev/sda1 - BIOS Boot Partition
/dev/sda2 - Linux LVM (arch is name of LVM)
--> /dev/arch/boot - ext2
--> /dev/arch/swap - swap
--> /dev/arch/root - ext4
--> /dev/arch/home - ext4As a complete newbie to partitioning on Linux I'd like to say how grateful I am to for making this.
You've kept it clear, clean and simple which I appreciate.
As most of my ventures into installing Linux is usually accompanied with a graphical installer a great deal of this is fairly alien. It could be nice to have a wiki entry just laying out a few examples for partitioning and setting up arch in various simple and exotic ways.
Again, thank you for this contribution. (While I quickly transcribe the steps in your video and ready the 'man' command)
Edit:
Basic step by step transcription
[root@archiso ~]# modprobe dm-mod
[root@archiso ~]# dhcpcd
[root@archiso ~]# pacman -Syy gptfdisk
[root@archiso ~]# gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: not present
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present
Creating new GPT entries.
Command (? for help): [n]
Partition number (1-128, default 1): [RETURN]
First sector (34-[max], default = 34) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: [RETURN]
Information: Moved requested sectory from 34 to 2048 in
order to align on 2048-sector boundries.
Use 'l' on the experts' menu to adjust alignment
Last sector (2048-[max], default = [max]) or{+-}size{KMGTP}: [+32MB]
Current type is 'Linux filesystem'
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): [EF02]
Changed type of partition to 'BIOS boot partition'
Command (? for help): [n]
Partition number (2-128, default 2): [RETURN]
First sector (34-[max], default = 67584) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: [RETURN]
Last sector (2048-[max], default = [max]) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: [RETURN]
Current type is 'Linux filesystem'
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): [8E00]
Changed type of partition to 'Linux LVM'
Command (? for help): [w]
Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING PARTITIONS!!
Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): [y]
OK: writing new GUID partition table (GPT).
The operaton has completed successfully.
[root@archiso ~]# pvcreate /dev/sda2
[root@archiso ~]# vgcreate arch /dev/sda2
[root@archiso ~]# vgdisplay
[root@archiso ~]# lvcreate -L 100M -n boot arch
[root@archiso ~]# lvcreate -C y -L 1G -n swap arch
[root@archiso ~]# lvcreate -L 10G -n root arch
[root@archiso ~]# lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n home arch
[root@archiso ~]# lvscan
[root@archiso ~]# mkfs.ext2 /dev/arch/boot
[root@archiso ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/arch/root
[root@archiso ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/arch/home
[root@archiso ~]# mkswap /dev/arch/swap
[root@archiso ~]# /arch/setup
Prepare Hard Drive
3 Manually Configure block devices, filesystems andmountpoints
Partition Access Method
dev directly by /dev/* (most intuitive but devicefile names can change
Manage Filesystems
/dev/sda1 raw - 32MiB N
/dev/mapper/arch-boot raw - 100MiB N > [IGNORE]
/dev/mapper/arch-home raw - 91000MiB N > filesystem (re)created? [NO] > ext4 home
/dev/mapper/arch-root raw - 10240MiB N > filesystem (re)created? [NO] > ext4 root
/dev/mapper/arch-swap raw - 1024MiB N > filesystem (re)created? [NO] > swap
Choose bootloader
[SKIP]
Configuration
mkinitcpio > HOOKS="...lvm2..."
DONE
Exit
[root@archiso ~]# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
[root@archiso ~]# mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc
[root@archiso ~]# mount -t sysfs /sys /mnt/sys
[root@archiso ~]# chroot /mnt /bin/bash
[root@archiso /]# dhcpcd
[root@archiso /]# pacman-db-upgrade
[root@archiso /]# pacman -Syy grub2-bios
[root@archiso /]# grub_bios-install --boot-directory=/boot --no-floppy --recheck --debug /dev/sda
[root@archiso /]# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
[root@archiso /]# exit
[root@archiso ~]# reboot
login
[root@host ~]# $EDITOR /etc/default/grub
#GRUB_GFXMODE=auto
#GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
#GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="light-blue/black"
#GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="light-cyan/blue"
[root@host ~]# chmod -x /etc/grub.d/10_linux
[root@host ~]# $EDITOR /etc/grub.d/40_custom
menuentry "Arch Linux" {
insmod lvm
set root=(arch-boot)
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/arch/root ro
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
menuentry "Arch Linux Fallback" {
insmod lvm
set root=(arch-boot)
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/arch/root ro
initrd /initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[root@host ~]# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
[root@host ~]# reboot
Last edited by Earnestly (2012-01-09 11:51:45) -
Hello people, I am very new to Solaris OS. I downloaded from your site Solaris
for x64/x86 to be burned on DVD, to be precise I downloaded Solaris 10 OS, x86 Platform - Solaris 10 11/06 Operating System, Solaris 10 11/06 Companion DVD, Multi-language - sol-10-u3-companion-ga-iso.zip 1222.35 MB.
I have Microsoft Windows SP1, but i downloaded this DVD version? Did i downloaded the wrong File?
My problem is that when I insert the DVD, and restart computer, it continue loading windows, but I expect to boot from DVD. What is the problem?
I set first booting device to be a cdrom (doesn`t have option to be DVD rom), and I don`t know all criterias to see is my hardware on HCL, so i will tell you that i have AMD Athlon 3200 +, NVIDIA Motherboard (dunno the exact model).
My question is , did I downloaded the wrong file, and what to do to set up solaris? I burned 2 DVD`s (in case that one didn`t working), and both aren`t working. I am desperate, so please help.
Thanks a lot!Hello people, I am very new to Solaris OS. I
downloaded from your site Solaris
for x64/x86 to be burned on DVD, to be precise I
downloaded Solaris 10 OS, x86 Platform - Solaris 10
11/06 Operating System, Solaris 10 11/06 Companion
DVD, Multi-language - sol-10-u3-companion-ga-iso.zip
1222.35 MB.
I have Microsoft Windows SP1, but i downloaded this
DVD version? Did i downloaded the wrong File?
My problem is that when I insert the DVD, and restart
computer, it continue loading windows, but I expect
to boot from DVD. What is the problem?
I set first booting device to be a cdrom (doesn`t
have option to be DVD rom), and I don`t know all
criterias to see is my hardware on HCL, so i will
tell you that i have AMD Athlon 3200 +, NVIDIA
Motherboard (dunno the exact model).
My question is , did I downloaded the wrong file, and
what to do to set up solaris? I burned 2 DVD`s (in
case that one didn`t working), and both aren`t
working. I am desperate, so please help.
Thanks a lot!I had the same trouble here. I have a boot from cd option in bios, but not boot from dvd. I installed gnu grub on a floppy disk (could be installed on hd or cd) and then the dvd booted. -
Trying to get Arch up and running on my MBA following these here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111698
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119212
I partition the HD (sdb1: EFI system partition/sdb2: HFS+ OSX install/sdb3: ext2 Arch install), install refit, boot to USB key of archboot, and install just fine. I set mountpoints (no swap, root as /dev/sdb3) I go to install bootloader manually and I'm running into issues. I'm trying as follows:
mount -o bind /dev /tmp/install/dev
mkdir /tmp/install/proc
mount -t proc none /tmp/install/proc
chroot /tmp/install
grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
grub-install /dev/sdb3 --no-floppy
Error: The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly
From the grub prompt
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
Error 15: File not found
But the file is present at /boot/grub/stage1 inside the chroot. Trying to set root as hd1,1 or even hd0,1 from inside the grub prompt reports no such partition. Any idea what is going on? I think it might be that the MBR doesn't have an entry for the new partition. Adding it to a hybrid via gdisk or the refit sync tool makes my USB key unbootable (Missing operating system error).
Last edited by btouellette (2011-08-20 01:47:19)Spider.007 wrote:
Well, it has worked for me on multiple machines, did you have refit sync GPT<>MBR? If you did, there is no need to use GPT specific tools like tom.yan suggests :)
Can you post the output of `fdisk -l /dev/sda` and the contents of /boot/grub/device.map ?
If I gptsync from refit after partitioning I can no longer boot to my USB key with Archboot to reattempt the install (just says "Missing operating system" after selecting it in refit). I would like to use this option and a legacy GRUB chainloaded since it is what I'm familiar with but I cannot boot to try to install GRUB to the partition directly.
Since the MBR only has the one entry spanning the entire disk (normal for GPT scheme AFAIK) I will have to use GRUB2 or some GPT aware bootloader unless I sync MBR and GPT. I can use gdisk from command-line post-install instead of gptsync from refit shell to sync MBR and GPT (hybrid) without reboot. This affected some change in manual GRUB (not GRUB2) install from inside chroot as I can now set the root device successfully
[root@archboot /]# grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda3
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly
[root@archboot /]# grub
grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda
grub> root (hd0,2)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xef
grub> setup (hd0,2)
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
Installing GRUB2 from the Arch install menu fails however and my attempts to install it manually have been just as successful.
On trying to install GRUB2 from command-line after install (no chroot)
[Arch Linux: /]# grub_bios-install --boot-directory=/boot --no-floppy --recheck /dev/sda3
/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `rootfs'.
I cannot find anything about this error message online. Same error with grub_ef_x86_64-install. My mounts at this point are as follows
[Arch Linux: /]# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=465902,mode=755 0 0
/run /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda3 /tmp/install ext2 rw,relatime,errors=continue 0 0
/dev/sdc /src iso9660 ro,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop0 /packages/core-x86_64 squashfs ro,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop1 /packages/core-any squashfs ro,relatime 0 0
This is how I've been setting up partitions
(parted) print
Model: ATA APPLE SSD TS128C (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 236978176s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 40s 409639s 409600s EFI system partition boot
2 409640s 117597143s 117187504s hfs+ Customer
3 117600256s 236978142s 119377887s ext2
And finally my device.map
[Arch Linux: /]# cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-APPLE_SSD_TS128C_207A41K1K0WK
(hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Cruzer_452760190081701E-0:0
Last edited by btouellette (2011-08-22 03:24:14) -
Portege R100 - can I reinstall WXP with USB floppy & USB drive?
I have recently corrupted my R100 through a virus attack. In spite of belatedly cleaning things up with Norton it now goes very slowly and I believe the only way forward is through a total XP reinstall.
I have the original recovery CDs and a USB floppy drive but not a PCMIA CDRom. As luck would have it my USB CDRom is broken. How do I get out of this situation? I am about to throw out an old desktop and would be happy to use the XP retail on the R100 if needed. Moreover is there any way to start the format & install process from a bootable floppy and then install the bulk of the OS from a USB drive - having been populated previously with copies of CD contents? Desperate people dream up desperate methods!
I have read some other threads on XP recovery issues but they are not entirely coincident with my circumstances. Any help on this front would be very gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.If you can get the setup files onto the R100 HDD using a FAT32 partition, you can install Windows from the HDD after booting from an MSDOS boot disk. (MSDOS cannot see NTFS drives).
You can use a 1.8" USB HDD Adapter to copy the Setup files to the R100 HDD from another PC. The Adapter wouldn't be expensive.
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