Re: can't partition disk?

[Jiann-Ming Su <sujiannming@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:50:24 -0500, Jiann-Ming Su <sujiannming@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> While in the shell, I went ahead and installed arcboot using apt-get.
> When I try to boot now, I get:
> 
>   Cannot load scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)/arcboot.
>   Range check failure: text start 0x88802000, size 0xc9b0.
>   Text section would overwrite an already loaded program.Unable to
> execute scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)/arcboot:  not enough space
>   Unable to load bootfile: not enough space
>   Autoboot failed
> 
> I think this may be related to the partition tables not being exactly
> right.  I'll look into it.
> 

Hmm... here's what my partition table looks like now:

  Command (m for help): p

  Disk /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc (SGI disk label): 141
heads, 62 sectors, 1016 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 8742 * 512 bytes

  ----- partitions -----
  Pt#                                   Device  Info     Start      
End   Sectors  Id  System
   1:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1  boot        75      
990   8007672   3  SGI raw
   2:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2             991     
1015    218550   3  SGI raw
   9:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part3               0       
74    655650   0  SGI volhdr
  11:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part4               0     
1016   8888543   6  SGI volume
  ----- Bootinfo -----
  Bootfile:
  ----- Directory Entries -----
   0: arcboot    sector    4 size   69120

  Command (m for help): 

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