Re: can't partition disk?
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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Jiann-Ming Su
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