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From: Dirk Tilger <dirk@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:37:48
Message-Id: 224833D6-999B-4CE0-B8B6-FC28CCB823A2@miriup.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard by Karin Willers
1 On 08.03.2008, at 01:07, Karin Willers wrote:
2
3 > trying to erase the partition table ended in fdisk not being able
4 > to read the disk ...
5 >
6 > / # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
7 > 1+0 records in
8 > 1+0 records out
9 > / # fdisk /dev/sda
10 >
11 > Unable to read /dev/sda
12 > / #
13 >
14 > Any hints? What is the procedure under Linux to add a fresh hard disk
15 > to an Octane? Browsing the WEB did not reveal anything useful.
16
17 Did fdisk work before? fdisk only supports the MBR partition format.
18 My guess would be that the SGI firmware (what they would call BIOS on
19 a PC) will only read SGI labels. I used to create SGI disklabels with
20 `parted` instead of `fdisk`, but the following site suggests that
21 there is an fdisk capable of creating SGI disklabels:
22
23 http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/SGI-BootCD-HOWTO.shtml
24
25 Judging by the man page of fdisk, you might want to go ahead with
26 `fdisk -i`.
27
28 Dirk.
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Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard Karin Willers <karin@×××××.de>