Re: O2 boot

[boris <boris@macbeth.mogwitz.de>]

Hi Giuseppe,

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:45:00PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hi Boris,
> 
> Il giorno mer, 12/03/2008 alle 19.12 +0100, boris ha scritto:

> > install-info(/usr/share/info/coreutils.info): could not backup /usr/share/info/dir in /var/backups/infodir.bak: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> No. But I have a few questions: is this reproducible starting the
> installation from scratch and repartitioning the hard disk? Could you
> repeat the install using a different file system (like xfs o ext2)?

Ok xfs also fails - same error but different package: util-linux 

I'm not sure how to repartitioning the hard disk (volume header).
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/mips/apcs05.html.en says:  
It can be created in the fdisk expert menu. 

But fdisk states: Sorry, no experts menu for SGI ....

Are there some new informations?

However my partition layout is:

Disk /dev/sda (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/sda1  boot        15       949   8173770  83  Linux native
 2: /dev/sda2  swap       950      1015    576972  82  Linux swap
 9: /dev/sda3               0        14    131130   0  SGI volhdr
11: /dev/sda4               0      1015   8881872   6  SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- Directory Entries -----
 0: sgilabel   sector    4 size     512
 1: ide        sector    5 size  343040
 2: sash       sector  675 size  343040
 3: arcboot    sector 1345 size   70376

       mfg
               boris