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idiot n00b
Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 7:11 am Post subject: ultra sparc10 install, can't partition??? |
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Ok, the wandering idiot needs a kick in the right direction because I'm going insane trying to get linux onto an ultra sparc10.
After fighting the 2004.1 livecd's for hours and finally getting a sparc64 2004.0 minimal livecd to actually boot to a login I'm starting to climb the wall. Things were going well, I got it on the network but that's about as far as I can take the install. When I attempt to fdisk the drive it complains that I won't be able to modify the partition table. Not wanting to trust a little error message I proceed with setting up the partitions the way I want them only to be rewarded with this:
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Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old table.
The new table will be used at the next reboot.
Syncing disks. |
no big deal so I go ahead and try the mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 and it confirms that it doesn't exist. So I throw it the good ole fdisk -l /dev/hda to see what the heck I have and there's all the crap I told it to zonk before laying it out the way I want. I know I'm overlooking the obvious here, it's late and the empty bottle of vodka probably isn't helping my thought process. Rebooting puts everything back to the beginning, so what am I overlooking on making the partitions? |
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Mark Clegg Apprentice
Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 270 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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I'd almost like to say the hard disk is write protected....
Has it got anything on it that it will boot from so you can verify this?
You could try doing a
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=1
which will completely destroy the partition table requiring fdisk to completely rebuild it, but check out the Gentoo on Sparc forum and search for whole disk partition problems first.... |
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Deathwing00 Bodhisattva
Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 4087 Location: Dresden, Germany
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo. |
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idiot n00b
Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Mark Clegg wrote: | You could try doing a
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=1
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livecd root # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=1
dd: opening '/dev/hda': read-only file system |
So now for the obvious question, what can I do about that? For grins I grabbed another IDE drive thinking the drive might just be toast but it does the same thing. |
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Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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I have found in the rare situation where I run into this that parted works when fdisk won't. You might give it a shot, just tryi to make sure the disklabel exists beforehand as parted doesn't always handle that well. |
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idiot n00b
Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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parted and cfdisk don't seem to do it either. After coming back to it today I looked at the fdisk-l and it has a native/swap layout that was created while the whole disk span was made sometime yesterday. Everything is /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1..part2..part3 instead of /dev/hda1..2..3.. <grrrrrr>
Booting today (no changes since booting yesterday) I still can't create filesystems to /dev/hda1 etc.. But it does seem to allow it if I shoot for /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 etc... I was able to make the native file system ext3, and do a mkswap on ../part2 and setup some mounting. I'm downloading a fresh stage tarball now with the hopes that "stuff just works" even if everything is on a single partition instead of being done right. |
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idiot n00b
Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 8:48 am Post subject: |
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success, with the exception of some problems getting silo loaded the machine now boots. For some reason silo seems to load after configuring and running it, but on a reboot there is no sign of it and all I get is the openboot. grrrr problem for another thread tomorrow if I remain stupid all night... For now I've had enough fun and am just going to set it off to snag xfree and kde.
Afterall it's a sun, running a good OS... who needs to reboot directly from a hd anyway. . . LOL |
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