[LinuxBIOS] pc partitoin magic number not found?

Jon Dufresne jon.dufresne at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 20:53:14 CET 2006


I am trying to boot a successfully system using LinuxBIOS + filo
payload. Right now I can currently get to filo. I Can mostly boot off
a livecd, but dies eventually because my root isn't specified
correctly. Instead of messing with the CD boot (since my system will
boot from a HD eventually anyway) I decided to install a minimal
centos system on a spare hard drive. I partitioned the hard drive as
follows:

# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 3166 MB, 3166765056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 385 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         287     2305296   83  Linux
/dev/hda2             288         385      787185   82  Linux swap


hda1 is formatted as ext2. When I get to filo I type the command to
boot the kernel and I get some sort of partition error on hda1, here
is the output:

boot: hda1:/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
malloc_diag: alloc: 408 bytes (5 blocks), free: 15968 bytes (1 blocks)
malloc_diag: alloc: 424 bytes (6 blocks), free: 15952 bytes (1 blocks)
file_open: dev=hda1, path=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL
find_ide_controller: found PCI IDE controller 8086:24cb prog_if=0x8a
find_ide_controller: primary channel: compatibility mode
find_ide_controller: cmd_base=0x1f0 ctrl_base=0x3f4
ide_software_reset: Waiting for ide0 to become ready for reset... ok
init_drive: Testing for hda
init_drive: Probing for hda
init_drive: LBA mode, sectors=6185088
init_drive: Init device params... ok
hda: LBA 3166MB: WDC AC33100H
init_drive: Testing for hdb
init_drive: Testing for hdb
open_pc_partition: pc partition magic number not found
open_eltorito_image: No El-Torito signature
Unrecognized partitioning scheme
malloc_diag: alloc: 408 bytes (5 blocks), free: 15968 bytes (1 blocks)
malloc_diag: alloc: 328 bytes (4 blocks), free: 16048 bytes (1 blocks)

Now, can boot this fine with the system bios using grub so I don't
think my partition is corrupted. Do I need to do a special partition
in order to boot with filo? I think my ide controller is configured
fine because I can boot off the CD. Just in case it wasn't I attempted
to fill registers with values from a working boot with lspci, same
error.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Jon




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