On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:24:25AM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > FYI : > Also .. parted barely works but hits a bug with sector sizes other > than 512 bytes :
Its not a bug but a feature, and you are warned about it :) > [root at ppc ~]# parted /dev/hda > GNU Parted 1.6.22 Ah, please use 1.6.24, or even 1.6.25 which i will release this WE. /me wearing the parted upstream maintainer hat :) > Copyright (C) 1998 - 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License. > > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT > ANY > WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR > A > PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. > > Using /dev/hda > (parted) print > Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes > Disk label type: amiga > Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags > 1 2.000 99.975 dhx boot > 2 99.976 199.951 ext3 dhx > 3 199.951 38166.679 dhx lvm > (parted) select /dev/hdc > Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc > has been opened read-only. > You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to > bug-parted at gnu.org containing the version (1.6.22), and the following > message: > > The sector size on /dev/hdc is 2048 bytes. Parted is known not to work > properly > with drives with sector sizes other than 512 bytes > Ignore/Cancel? Cancel > Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc > has been opened read-only. > Using /dev/hdc Well, /dev/hdc is the cdrom drive, so what do you expect ? Are you trying to partition a CD ? > (parted) print > Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-642.914 megabytes > Disk label type: mac > Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags > 1 0.000 0.001 Apple > 2 0.008 642.621 PBOOT > (parted) quit > Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. > > I am looking at parted-1.6.24 now and working to get GRUB2 onto a > secondary harddisk such that I can boot a ported OpenSolars kernel > from a secondary disk. I have GRUB 1.91 working ( more or less ) on > my Genesi ODW now and the pictures can be seen of various things here > : > > > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/grub/grub_1.91/ Mmm, maybe you expected to find a second harddisk but found the cdrom ? Friendly, Sven Luther
