pc164lx and RedHat 4.2

Ram Samudrala (ram@zen.stanford.edu)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:54:21 -0800 (PST)

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I reported a problem here a couple of days ago when installing RedHat
4.2 on the pc164lx. Essentially RedHat 4.2 would let me run fdisk on
the SCSI drive, format the partitions, and then would complain about
it not being able to mount the partitions.

I fixed this problem by using a second SCSI disk which was fdisked and
formatted on another system, and installing RedHat 4.2 on it (skipping
the fdisk and formatting steps). Using the second disk as the root, I
then ran fdisk and mke2fs from the installed system on the first SCSI
disk. Then I re-installed RedHat 4.2, but this time I again skipped
the fdisk and formatting steps. This worked fine and I now have a
working system.

The only problem is that the network driver isn't working well with
the network card. This is a card that comes on-board with the
pc164lx. I think it is a matter of jumper settings (since I am not
able to set the host IP address via the AlphaBIOS permanently), but I
will look into it tomorrow.

So my understanding is that there's something wrong in the RedHat
fdisk or mke2fs found in the root system disk provided by RedHat.

Thanks to all who responded.

--Ram

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