Re: Still probelms to boot from SD
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 LannerHawk@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 12/7/99 11:40:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> > ferret@phonewave.net writes:
> >
> > > /dev/sda1 0 1100 396000 83 Linux native
> > > /dev/sda2 u 1100 1151 18360 82 Linux swap
> > > /dev/sda3 0 1151 414360 0 Empt
>
> The "u" is "unmountable". No idea why, but it exists, as a flag, on SunOS
> as well.
>
> To the original poster, are you sure that you are formatting the disk on a
> Sparc Linux box?
Yep. That Sparc was purchased second-hand with an unbootable Solaris/SunOS
system on it. After mounting the original partition and poking around I
removed all the partitions except sda3 and repartitioned it with fdisk
from the slink floppy install set.
-- Ferret no baka
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