On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Manfred Plagmann wrote:
> Hi, > I still can't get my Sparc IPX booting Linux from the HD. > > I have received some answers to this problem which gave me a better > insight. As I understand the HD has to have a partition which spans the > whole drive. I intent to have one Linux and one swap partition. I > therefore set the partition table up to have one 83 (Linux native) and > one 82 (Linux swap) the third partition should now span the whole disk > and should have the type WHOLE DISK. But I don't see this type listed in > fdisk. Someone wrote to use type 5 which is EXTENDED but this somehow > didn't do it. [Nifty: line-justify in pine 3.96 auto-quotes a quoted line] > > Any help is appreciated. > > Manfred Here's the partitioning on my IPX's HD (The OEM hard drive AFAICT) nasal:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 9 heads, 80 sectors, 1151 cylinders Units = cylinders of 720 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0 1100 396000 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 u 1100 1151 18360 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 0 1151 414360 0 Empty BTW, mine had a non-booting Solaris install on it when I got it, and I just wiped the Solaris partition and installed Linux instead. /dev/sda3 was there from Solaris AFAICT. -- Ferret no baka