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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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Regards, |
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Aron |
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Aron Griffis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer (alpha / ia64 / ruby / vim) |
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