Re: 2.1_r0 install experience
eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin) writes:
> So, I went through the install, and an old problem reappeared...
> When booting off of this disk (sd(0,2,0)), I get
> Bad magic number in disk label!
> S
> Bad magic number in disk label!
> IProgram terminated.
> ok
> I assume this is because (1) the disk was originally formatted on an
> x86 linux box, so it has a DOS partition table (2) fdisk isn't a "big
> enough hammer" to fix that...
> I did note that fdisk had a "b" option for "edit bsd partition table"
> but all it said was "/dev/sdb has no BSD-style partition table"...
> I did find (after rebooting with the rescue zip disk) the eXpert mode
> "g" option for "create an IRIX partition table" which is somewhat
> distressing... and in fact, that looks like what it *does* do. Very
> very strange.
On the sparc, fdisk has:
s create a new empty Sun disklabel
which is what you want. (It appears that "s" is in the intel version
too - although it doesn't appear in the menus, and I don't know for
sure if all the endian issues are worked out.) Intelsilo is at:
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham/debian/silo/
as soon as the maintainer folds my changes into the package in potato,
I'll generate a potato intelsilo. (May be done already, I'll have to
check.)
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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