Amix: hard drive too big?

[jnordness]

I finally got around to installing AMIX on my 2000. I am doing the single hard drive install method on a 4.3GB hard drive. When the install script shows the available partitions, it is WAY off. I have a 200mb partition at the beginning of the drive where I put the install image on, and the A3.1 partition after that at about 167mb. The install script detects these as 1.6 and 1.3GB, respectively. The only other SCSI hard drives I have are 120 and 240mb, not enough to be useful to me. Is my hard drive too big for AMIX? Should I look for a smaller one? My SCSI controller is an A2091 by the way.

[jnordness]

Nevermind, I did the 2 HD install method using the 240mb drive. This time, it installed all of the files correctly, only to fail when it tried to install the bootloader. The 2mb boot partition is there and everything... Are there any AMIX guys out there that can help me out?  :-?

[jnordness]

Does the order matter? It put the boot partition after root and swap. I tried re-installing it again and it gave me the same error. Here's all it gave me:

Patching kernel...
Installation of boot partition failed.
init: status 0x6300

It then restarted the install script. I'm so close. I wish I didn't have to wait 1.5 hours to install everything to know that it didn't work!

[jnordness]

I repartitioned the drive in the order you said, Matt, but I made the size of the boot partition 21mb to see if size was the problem. Nope, it is still giving me the same error as above. I am stumped.

[jnordness]

I am running it on an A2000 with an A2620 board (7.0 roms), A2091 card, and an 8UP! ram board (8mb between the 3). The install drive is an IBM 4.3gb, and the media drive is a Quantum 240mb. It has 3.1 roms in it by the way. It is an older motherboard revision (4.5 I think). Not fancy, but it should be able to run it.

[jnordness]

@Failure: I was just thinking about doing everything in reverse like you said; I'll try that over the next day or so. Also, FYI, AMIX acted funny with my drive at first. If ALL of the available partitions went over 1gb total, it would report funky sizes, ala my initial post. Keeping everything below 1gb let me get to the point of actually copying files.

@Tahoe: I have 7.0 roms for my A2091 also. I upgraded the roms for that and my A2620 when I got my 3.1 roms. But just because my A2091 doesn't have a problem with my drive doesn't mean AMIX won't. I can't remember if it tells me how much ram is available, but I'll try removing my 8UP! Thanks for the help guys. I'll keep you posted.

[jnordness]

I tried it your way nishtek, same error. Also, it appears that the script changed the partition types of some of the amiga partitions I made to unix type partitions, even though I formatted them all as amiga partitions. I'm trying Failures idea as we speak.

When the amix disks load, they show 8.5mb of fast ram... does this confirm that the 8UP! works under amix?

[jnordness]

Fun. I just found out that the 240mb hard drive has a couple of bad sectors. That MIGHT be why I am having problems. I've been trying to do it using the single hard drive method again, but it is still reporting funky partition sizes, even though the size of all of the partitions is less than 1gb. Are the bad sectors stored somewhere in the MBR so unix doesn't try to overwrite them?

[jnordness]

Well, since the 240mb is not good, I think I'm done messing around for now. Towards the end there, even HDtoolbox was being weird when it was paritioning the 4.3gb drive. I just think Amix doesn't like the bigguns.