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I'm virtually certain re-writing the partition table is going to require a |
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reboot. |
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BTW, over the years I've had several drives with the "over 1024" cylinder |
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message, and it has never been a problem with many versions of linux, |
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including Gentoo, so that shouldn't be a problem using any modern distro. |
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Robert Crawford |
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On Saturday 08 October 2005 04:36 am, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> I'm trying to reinstall gentoo, after serious troubles due to hd failure |
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> (I fear) or filesystem corruption (I hope). So, I booted Knoppix and I'm |
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> trying to repartition hda. I deleted all partitions and tried to save |
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> changes, before making new partitions. Problem is: |
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> |
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> root@0[~]# fdisk /dev/hda |
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> |
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> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9733. |
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> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, |
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> and could in certain setups cause problems with: |
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> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) |
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> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs |
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> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) |
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> |
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> Command (m for help): p |
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> |
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> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes |
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> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders |
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> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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> |
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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> |
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> Command (m for help): w |
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> The partition table has been altered! |
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> |
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> Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. |
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> |
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> WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: |
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> Device or resource busy. |
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> The kernel still uses the old table. |
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> The new table will be used at the next reboot. |
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> Syncing disks. |
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> |
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> |
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> Rebooting is not an option, since I'm working remote through ssh. |
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> |
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> BTW: |
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> root@0[~]# mount |
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> /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw) |
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> /dev/hdc on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro) |
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> /dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro) |
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> /ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=813616k) |
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> /UNIONFS on /UNIONFS type unionfs |
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> (rw,noatime,dirs=/ramdisk=rw:/KNOPPIX=ro) |
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> /UNIONFS/dev/pts on /UNIONFS/dev/pts type devpts (rw) |
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> /proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0666) |
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> automount(pid2703) on /mnt/auto type autofs |
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> (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2703,minproto=2,maxproto=4) |
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> /UNIONFS/dev/hdb5 on /mnt/hdb5 type ext3 (rw) |
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> |
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> So, what went wrong? And is there any way to force use of the new table, |
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> other than rebooting? |
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> -- |
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> Jorge Almeida |
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