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Tower.Lu
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 Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:28 am Post subject: netboot works, but... |
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Hello:
I am trying to install gentoo on my Sun Blade 2000 workstation. I googled related articles and found that booting from livecd may not a good choice due to the 'fast data access' error. So I downloaded the tftpboot image for gentoo. It works just fine. And I got the console now. I configured the network after that. It works . But now I have the problem. I want to use fdisk to view and set the hard disk partion. But I don't know which file in /dev corresponds to my hard disk. I am new to Sun systems. Does sun blade 2000 has ide or scsi hard disks? I just can't find the /dev/hda or /dev/sda ... So my question is how to get my hard disk partion table and repart it.
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Tower.Lu
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| I found the cdrom info in the dmesg. But didn't find the hard disk info. Didn't netboot image properly drive the hard disk? Or others? |
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xming
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try dmesg, you should see something like this
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SCSI device sda: 35378533 512-byte hdwr sectors (18114 MB)
Partition check:
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7
sym0:1: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (50.0 ns, offset 16)
SCSI device sdb: 71132959 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2
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hardave
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: netboot works, but... |
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| Tower.Lu wrote: | | Does sun blade 2000 has ide or scsi hard disks? I just can't find the /dev/hda or /dev/sda |
Neither, the SB2000 has FC-AL (Fibre Channel) disks. I can't remember off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure it's a Qlogic 2200 or 2100 controller. The qlogicfc.o module should work for you, but I'm not sure if it is on the tftpboot image. 'lspci' or 'cat /proc/pci' will tell you for sure what controller it is. Once loaded the disks should show as /dev/sd? devices. |
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Tower.Lu
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| Oh, thank you guys for the answers. I can't find any modules in the tftp image. So I can't probe the hard disk module. I think I can make the tftp image myself. But I haven't working sparc boxes by hand. |
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