Boot from HD/Devices in E-uae

[KONEY]

NOOO! today, after having re-partitioned the card, linux doesn't mount it anymore! NOOO!

[ 5449.080670] AFFS: No valid root block on device sdc1

[Jerry]

Oh man,
seems this card is cursed Or the affs code is.
Can you try out (after installing disktype - should be in repos so a simple "apt-get install disktype" should do):

sudo disktype /dev/sdc

[KONEY]

Yes I start suspecting that too

Here's the code you asked for:

koney@BEAST2-UBUNTU:~$ sudo disktype /dev/sdc

--- /dev/sdc
Block device, size 1.890 GiB (2029805568 bytes)
Amiga Rigid Disk partition map
Partition 1: 426.2 MiB (446939136 bytes, 872928 sectors from 2016)
  Drive name "DH0"
  Type "DOS\1" (Amiga FFS file system (non-intl.))
  Amiga FFS file system (intl., no dir cache)
    Type "DOS\3"
Partition 2: 503.5 MiB (527966208 bytes, 1031184 sectors from 874944)
  Drive name "DH1"
  Type "DOS\1" (Amiga FFS file system (non-intl.))
  Amiga FFS file system (non-intl.)
    Type "DOS\1"
Partition 3: 31.41 MiB (32933376 bytes, 64323 sectors from 119133)
  Drive name "DH2"
  Type "DOS\1" (Amiga FFS file system (non-intl.))
Partition 4: 502.5 MiB (526934016 bytes, 1029168 sectors from 2935296)
  Drive name "DH3"
  Type "DOS\1" (Amiga FFS file system (non-intl.))
  Amiga FFS file system (non-intl.)
    Type "DOS\1"

...at least I'm learning a lot of new linux commands

[Jerry]

This is really strange. The disktype output seems sane. I just tried myself with a cf-card with multiple partitions and had no problems whatsoever.

You could try to find out the rootblock of each partition and give that to the mount command but that doesn't seem too user-friendly .

For now I'm out of options. What tools did you use to partition the card. I'm interested in trying to reproduce the error with a hardfile. Until now every hardfile I threw at affs was mounted correctly.

[KONEY]

me too!

I used HDtoolbox the first time, then RDBprep to change partition sizes, as it has more options.

[KONEY]

A little update: after repartioning the CF following this thread: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=46582 I managed to mount the 4 partition into linux! Yeees!

Next problem: I can have only one device, and it shows me on the amiga side also other files that are inside the folder where I have mounted the partitions....ARGHHH!!!

[Jerry]

I don't quite understand, sorry.
If you want to mount several partitions at the same time you have to create mountpoints (directories) for all of them and put multiple "filesystem2=" stanzas into your configfile.

[KONEY]

YEs I realized it by myself... now I wrote a .SH batch to do the dirty job!

Thanx a lot again!

[Mark]

Originally Posted by KONEY

Hi all!

I moved myself a bit into Ubuntu so I have installed E-uae to emulate amigas.

Now, I can't find the option to boot from real amiga devices like HDs or CFs.
Thanx

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthre...538#post587538