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From: Karin Willers <karin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:07:48
Message-Id: 1204924062.5500.5.camel@ratlos
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard by Panagiotis Christopoulos
1 Hello All,
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 Thanks, Karin
18 -----
19 On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 22:00 +0200, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote:
20 > On 20:34 Sun 02 Mar , Karin Willers wrote:
21 > > Any comments??
22 > >
23 > > The Gentoo documentation seems not to be in sync with the actual
24 > > fdisk command options ...
25 > >
26 >
27 > If you follow the handbook as it is, you should end to something like,
28 >
29 > Neo ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda
30 >
31 > Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8682 cylinders
32 > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
33 >
34 > ----- partitions -----
35 > Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
36 > 1: /dev/sda1 boot 51 101 104448 83 Linux native
37 > 2: /dev/sda2 swap 102 1079 2002944 82 Linux swap
38 > 3: /dev/sda3 1080 1748 1370112 83 Linux native
39 > 4: /dev/sda4 1749 8681 14198784 83 Linux native
40 > 9: /dev/sda5 0 50 104448 0 SGI volhdr
41 > 11: /dev/sda6 0 8681 17780736 6 SGI volume
42 > ----- Bootinfo -----
43 > Bootfile: /unix
44 > ----- Directory Entries -----
45 > 0: btld3r sector 4 size 73684
46 >
47 > Follow exactly the instructions in
48 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-mips.xml?part=1&chap=4 ,
49 > the section "Getting the SGI Volume Header to just the right size".
50 > After that I think that you will be fine. Use the dd command to
51 > delete the partition table, and start again.
52 >
53 > Panagiotis
54
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