[Oberon] re: Partitions.Show failure

[Vasile Rotaru]

eas-lab at absamail.co.za

> Vasile Rotaru 
> >   I am trying to install NO on a new comp, and after mid-clicking on
> > Partitions.Show it barfs on me with "error 9". Any suggestions? 
> > 
> >   The disk is a WDC WD200BB-00DEA0 model (18 GB), and was 
> > partioned with Debian cfdisk.
>  
> You don't say what version of NO.
> I use ver 2001 and Partitions.Show always works on all/several IDE's. 
> 

  It is the version I used before (the alpha/last one, I guess). I must have somewhere other version of NO. I'll try it too, thank you.


> Searching for "error" on Partitions.Mod shows:
> ]		Texts.WriteString(w, "error "); Texts.WriteInt(w, res, 1)
> which doesn't fit your report.
> 
> Nor does:
> ]	NoSpaceAvailable = 9001;
> ]	CoreMismatch = 9002;	(* core file on disk does not match *)
> ]	CoreChecksumError = 9003;	(* core file checksum mismatch *)
> ]	OutOfSlots = 9004;	(* out of primary partition slots *)
> ]	PartitionTooSmall = 9005;	(* partition too small to create *)
> 
> 
> >   Or has is anything to do with the BIOS settings (LBA, NORMAL...)?
> If linux sees the partitions, I'd expect NO to also see them ?
> 

As far as I know, the linux kernel does not use BIOS calls at all..., but LILO (the bootloader) should use them, so I just don't know.

> -- Chris Glur.
> 

  Vasile