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Hello All, |
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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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/ # 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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Unable to read /dev/sda |
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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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Thanks, Karin |
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On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 22:00 +0200, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: |
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> On 20:34 Sun 02 Mar , Karin Willers wrote: |
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> > Any comments?? |
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> > |
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> > The Gentoo documentation seems not to be in sync with the actual |
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> > fdisk command options ... |
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> > |
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> |
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> If you follow the handbook as it is, you should end to something like, |
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> |
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> Neo ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda |
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> Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8682 cylinders |
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> Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes |
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> |
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> ----- partitions ----- |
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> Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System |
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> 1: /dev/sda1 boot 51 101 104448 83 Linux native |
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> 2: /dev/sda2 swap 102 1079 2002944 82 Linux swap |
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> 3: /dev/sda3 1080 1748 1370112 83 Linux native |
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> 4: /dev/sda4 1749 8681 14198784 83 Linux native |
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> 9: /dev/sda5 0 50 104448 0 SGI volhdr |
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> 11: /dev/sda6 0 8681 17780736 6 SGI volume |
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> ----- Bootinfo ----- |
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> Bootfile: /unix |
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> ----- Directory Entries ----- |
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> 0: btld3r sector 4 size 73684 |
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> Follow exactly the instructions in |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-mips.xml?part=1&chap=4 , |
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> the section "Getting the SGI Volume Header to just the right size". |
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> After that I think that you will be fine. Use the dd command to |
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> delete the partition table, and start again. |
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> |
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> Panagiotis |
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