Re: Odd partition tables on Lenny

[David Johnson <dj@david-web.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 24 Mar 2010 23:32:39 Mr Ian Primus wrote:
> 
> Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2213 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1             0      1945  15623212+   1  Boot
> /dev/sda2          1945      2213   2152710   82  Linux swap
> /dev/sda3             0      2213  17775922+   5  Whole disk
> Detected sun disklabel with wrong version [0x00000000].
> Detected sun disklabel with wrong sanity [0x00000000].
> Detected sun disklabel with wrong num_partitions [0].
> Warning: Wrong values need to be fixed up and will be corrected by w(rite)
> 

Not sure if this is the problem or not, but you need to start the first 
partition on each disk at cylinder 1, not 0 otherwise your Sun disklabel gets 
overwritten.

Regards,
David.

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David Johnson
www.david-web.co.uk