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AndreR n00b
Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Portugal
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject: Problems with disclabel, ss20 |
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Hello everyone,
This is my situation: before a gentoo install, a 2gb harddisk was ok, it came with disklabel and some solaris partitions, I believe. I did a gentoo installation from netboot, creating my own set of partitions, and it went fine. I did the first reboot, and the hard drive refused to boot, claiming 'Bad magic number'. So, I booted via netboot again and tried to fdisk. fdisk immediatly says that the disk does not have a valid sun disklabel. Then, I've read the disklabel info from an equal disk I have, that is working ok, and supplied that information to fdisk.
What is weird now is that, when I hit 'p' to see the partition table, I can still see the partition scheme I had during the installation. But I am unable to write the disklabel to the disk, fdisk exits with these errors:
Quote: | Expert command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
SCSI device sda: 4194995 512-byte hdwr sectors (2148 MB)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0: unknown partition table
SCSI device sda: 4194995 512-byte hdwr sectors (2148 MB)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0: unknown partition table
Syncing disks. |
And when I fdisk again, it still says I have no sun disklabel...
So, although the list of partitions seems ok, I am unable to retrieve anything from them. And I would really like to save the 7-day compilation effort .
Any help is welcome.
Thanks,
Andre |
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AndreR n00b
Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Portugal
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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It seems to be fixed, although I did nothing but re-attempt the fdisk
All partitions are now corrupt, though.
How strange.
Andre |
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