Re: Can't make an ext2 filesystem
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Leander Koornneef wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:40:51PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Is your partition table correct and does the kernel parse it
> > properly? (check boot messages and/or dmesg output).
>
> hmm, it seems that the partition table is indeed incorrect.
> I'm probably missing some essential knowledge about partitioning (on an Indy).
> My /dev/sda partition table looks like this:
>
> /dev/sda1 boot Linux native
> /dev/sda2 swap Linux swap
> /dev/sda9 SGI volhdr
> /dev/sda11 SGI volume
>
> I don't have any partitions like those last two on /dev/sdb, so I'm guessing that's the problem.
> However, I can't find any way to create such partition types :(
> Can anyone tell me how to set those up?
hmm, nevermind...
I totally overlooked the 'create IRIX partition table' option :-*
Sorry to have bothered you with this silly question.
Leander
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