Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Hadmut Danisch) | Subject | 2.0.27: Empty harddisk kills kernel | Date | 14 Jan 1997 19:43:08 GMT |
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I just tried to install a Debian distribution on a Pentium-60 with an Adaptec 1542B SCSI-Controller and a 2GB SCSI-disk.
The SCSI-disk was cleaned by filling with zero bytes, thus containing no partition table.
After booting the Debian rescue floppy (2.0.27 with Sun Partition handling) the kernel detected the disk, showed an error message about a wrong Sun magic word and went into an endless loop of scsi-read-timeout error messages.
The system came up well after writing a new partition table onto the disk with a Sun workstation.
Is there any way to make the linux kernel come up with an empty disk?
Hadmut
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