Re: Question regarding wheezy-installation on SGI O2

["T. Ermlich" <Pelegrine@gmx.net>]

Hi Adam,

well, the problem was not the power-supply-unit.
It was caused by a broken adapter card right on the mainboard (030-1202-001
Flat Panel Interface card).
I bought a new power-supply-unit & a new mainboard ... well, at least I have
spare parts now ;)

Now I'm stuck when partitioning ... :( ... the installer doesn't find any hdd.
I have a blank hdd (73gb cheetah), and my fdisk menu looks different from the
one on http://www.pvv.org/~pladsen/Indy/HOWTO.html#h
What I did:
- dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=1 bs=512
- fdisk /dev/sda
-- Enter expert mode: x
-- Make disklabel: g
-- Leave expert mode: r

So I got this:
Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8924 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes

----- partitions -----
Pt#  Device    Info Start        End    Sectors  Id System
9:   /dev/sda1          0       4096       4096   0 SGI volhdr
11:  /dev/sda2          0  143364059  143364060   6 SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix

Ok ...
after adding the linux-partitions it looks like this:
Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8924 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes

----- partitions -----
Pt#  Device    Info   Start        End    Sectors  Id System
1:   /dev/sda1 boot   16065     220865     204801  83 Linux native
2:   /dev/sda2 swap  224910     749198     524289  82 Linux swap
9:   /dev/sda3            0       4096       4096   0 SGI volhdr
11:  /dev/sda4            0  143364059  143364060   6 SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix

I'm not able to start the swap-partition at (end of boot)+1 ...
And I have no idea how the create that "----- Directory Entries -----" ...

Any hints?

Thanks a lot, and have a nice weekend
Torsten
 

Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Mai 2013 um 19:16 Uhr
Von: "Adam Holland" <ajh8888@gmail.com>
An: debian-mips@lists.debian.org
Betreff: Re: Question regarding wheezy-installation on SGI O2

Hi,
 I recently did a successful install of debian-mips onto an O2, and the machine did not turn off.
 It seems more like a coincidence, that your power supply broke, regardless of the task you were performing.  I'm not familiar with the O2 chasis, but maybe somebody knows how to test the power supply to verify my assumption?

 
-Adam
 
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:12 AM, T. Ermlich <Pelegrine@gmx.net> wrote:Good morning everybody,

some weeks ago I bought an used SGI O2.
As I have no Irix licenses I decided to install wheezy,
and so I read http://www.cyrius.com/debian/o2/[http://www.cyrius.com/debian/o2/] & http://www.pvv.org/~pladsen/Indy/HOWTO.html[http://www.pvv.org/~pladsen/Indy/HOWTO.html]

Booting the O2 worked fine, I chose country & language, set an root password, and added a first user.
Later on during the install-process the harddisk wasn't found/recognized, so I switched to another console
and used "fdisk /dev/sda". The disk was shown, with two SGI-partitions on it ... when I hit "w" to write the changed settings the system stopped, and switched off immediatly.
Now it doesn't start anymore ...
Did I broke it? Do you have an idea what happened?

Thanks a lot!

cu
Torsten


PS:
sorry for my english, but I'm not an native english-speaker ...


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