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On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:48:30PM -0500, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> Jay Maynard wrote: [Thu Jan 22 2004, 09:30:15PM EST] |
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> > I've got an Alphaserver 1000A 5/333 with a DAC960P (KZPSC) RAID controller. |
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> > I've managed to create the BSD disklabel, but I can't figure out what the |
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> > partitions are created as in the LiveCD installer filesystem - or if they're |
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> > created at all, and if not, what do I create them as. I did the fdisk |
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> > against /dev/rd/disc0/disc, since that was the only file I could find with a |
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> > major number of 48 (the DAC960 driver's major number). There are no files of |
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> > the name /dev/rd/c0d0*, or anything of the sort. I rebooted after creating |
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> > the disklabel, and the driver didn't find the BAD disklabel - does that mean |
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> > that it doesn't support them? Am I stuck, in that case? I suppose I could |
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> > try MILO again, but I wasn't able to get the ARC firmware to load the OS |
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> > from the floppy. |
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> You might try booting a Debian ISO to see if the partitions are |
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> recognized. The current Gentoo ISO apparently has some partitioning |
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> problems. If the Debian ISO works, then you can make your filesystems, |
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> chroot and install Gentoo. |
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I was able to get there by defining both DOS partitions and BSD disklabels, |
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with identical layouts. |
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