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Hello All, |
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after some delay to get back to the project, I managed to fdisk the |
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drive with an SCA-to-SCSI adapter on another machine, but now new |
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problems show up. I downloaded two boot images which have a different |
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behavior: |
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ip30-r10k+-20050530.img is able to mke2fs the partition and mount |
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properly (although the documentation is wrong, since the root directory |
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of the ramdisk is mounted read only, so I'm using /tmp instead), but |
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networking does not work. Ifconfig seems to work, but a ping to a |
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machine in the local network does not succeed. |
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ip30-r10k+-20050820.img is good for networking (i.e. ifconfig is ok and |
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pinging a remote machine like www.gentoo.org works), but mounting the |
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partitions of the hard disk does not work, showing the following error |
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message: |
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/ # mount /dev/sda3 /tmp/gentoo |
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mount: Mounting /dev/sda3 on /tmp/gentoo failed: Input/output error |
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/ # |
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These boot images seem to be a little bit outdated, aren't they? |
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So here my questions: |
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1. Has anyone noticed similar things? |
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2. Are there newer boot images available? |
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3. As previously asked, what is the format of the .img file? |
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4. Is there active development done on IP30s? |
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Thanks, Karin |
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On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 23:14 +0100, Karin Willers wrote: |
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> Some remarks here: |
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> My fdisk is v2.12q, which should be able to write SGI disk labels. |
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> |
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> Fdisk worked before erasing the first block of the disk. |
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> |
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> Strangely enough the advice was (as one option) to erase the |
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> the first block and then continue with fdisk. I did not save my |
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> boot block, which obviously was a mistake ... |
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> |
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> I did not find 'parted' on the network booted ram disk and there is |
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> unfortunately no Gentoo live CD for Octane. |
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> I'll acquire an SCA-to-SCSI adapter to connect the hard disk |
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> to another machine and do the fdisk/parted there. |
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> |
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> Greetings, Karin |
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> ----- |
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> On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 11:37 +0400, Dirk Tilger wrote: |
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> > On 08.03.2008, at 01:07, Karin Willers wrote: |
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> > |
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> > > trying to erase the partition table ended in fdisk not being able |
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> > > to read the disk ... |
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> > > |
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> > > / # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 |
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> > > 1+0 records in |
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> > > 1+0 records out |
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> > > / # fdisk /dev/sda |
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> > > |
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> > > Unable to read /dev/sda |
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> > > / # |
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> > > |
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> > > Any hints? What is the procedure under Linux to add a fresh hard disk |
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> > > to an Octane? Browsing the WEB did not reveal anything useful. |
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> > |
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> > Did fdisk work before? fdisk only supports the MBR partition format. |
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> > My guess would be that the SGI firmware (what they would call BIOS on |
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> > a PC) will only read SGI labels. I used to create SGI disklabels with |
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> > `parted` instead of `fdisk`, but the following site suggests that |
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> > there is an fdisk capable of creating SGI disklabels: |
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> > |
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> > http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/SGI-BootCD-HOWTO.shtml |
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> > |
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> > Judging by the man page of fdisk, you might want to go ahead with |
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> > `fdisk -i`. |
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> > Dirk. |
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> |
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