From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXtcq-0006VJ-3Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:37:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03E1DE0212; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:37:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (mo-p00-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.161]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91928E0212 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:37:46 +0000 (UTC) X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 X-RZG-AUTH: hu4lJjzVX5IeH0XObfBIVqDiC35Y9mgv/7xFy0eLT0NVkUz6PQ== Received: from [192.168.1.107] ([86.99.56.148]) by post.webmailer.de (fruni mo17) (RZmta 16.8) with ESMTP id w07293k282wvwE for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 08:37:42 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from: ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <1204924062.5500.5.camel@ratlos> References: <1204472839.5568.11.camel@ratlos> <20080302161110.GA4380@Vereniki.lan> <1204475637.5568.15.camel@ratlos> <1204486455.5568.26.camel@ratlos> <20080302200027.GA5358@Vereniki.lan> <1204924062.5500.5.camel@ratlos> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <224833D6-999B-4CE0-B8B6-FC28CCB823A2@miriup.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Dirk Tilger Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:37:40 +0400 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-Archives-Salt: 08286957-d06d-4bf2-b300-35430a1f6646 X-Archives-Hash: a2f740f88919b42a5fd455bd1c6ce283 On 08.03.2008, at 01:07, Karin Willers wrote: > trying to erase the partition table ended in fdisk not being able > to read the disk ... > > / # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > / # fdisk /dev/sda > > Unable to read /dev/sda > / # > > Any hints? What is the procedure under Linux to add a fresh hard disk > to an Octane? Browsing the WEB did not reveal anything useful. Did fdisk work before? fdisk only supports the MBR partition format. My guess would be that the SGI firmware (what they would call BIOS on a PC) will only read SGI labels. I used to create SGI disklabels with `parted` instead of `fdisk`, but the following site suggests that there is an fdisk capable of creating SGI disklabels: http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/SGI-BootCD-HOWTO.shtml Judging by the man page of fdisk, you might want to go ahead with `fdisk -i`. Dirk. -- gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org mailing list