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Some remarks here: |
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My fdisk is v2.12q, which should be able to write SGI disk labels. |
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Fdisk worked before erasing the first block of the disk. |
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Strangely enough the advice was (as one option) to erase the |
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the first block and then continue with fdisk. I did not save my |
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boot block, which obviously was a mistake ... |
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I did not find 'parted' on the network booted ram disk and there is |
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unfortunately no Gentoo live CD for Octane. |
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I'll acquire an SCA-to-SCSI adapter to connect the hard disk |
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to another machine and do the fdisk/parted there. |
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Greetings, Karin |
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On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 11:37 +0400, Dirk Tilger wrote: |
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> On 08.03.2008, at 01:07, Karin Willers wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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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> Did fdisk work before? fdisk only supports the MBR partition format. |
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> My guess would be that the SGI firmware (what they would call BIOS on |
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> a PC) will only read SGI labels. I used to create SGI disklabels with |
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> `parted` instead of `fdisk`, but the following site suggests that |
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> there is an fdisk capable of creating SGI disklabels: |
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> http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/SGI-BootCD-HOWTO.shtml |
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> Judging by the man page of fdisk, you might want to go ahead with |
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> `fdisk -i`. |
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> Dirk. |
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