Still probelms to boot from SD
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. Any help is appreciated. Manfred
Re: Still probelms to boot from SD
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 FlagStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1 0 1100396000 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 u 1100 1151 18360 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 0 11514143600 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
Re: Still probelms to boot from SD
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. Any help is appreciated. Manfred Are you sure you are using a Sun disklabel, not MSDOS partition table ? If your disk comes from a PC box, try the 's' option in fdisk. It will build a new sun disklabel with one swap and one ext2fs partition (and the whole disk partition as number 3). Note that the Sun disklabel is required by OpenPROM (the boot monitor) to boot from HD. My fdisk reports the following tags for partitions types: # fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): l 0 Empty3 SunOS swap 6 SunOS stand 82 Linux swap 1 Boot 4 SunOS usr7 SunOS var 83 Linux native 2 SunOS root 5 Whole disk 8 SunOS home Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 17 heads, 80 sectors, 1965 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1360 * 512 bytes Device FlagStart End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0 752 511360 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 u752 84865280 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 0 1965 13362005 Whole disk /dev/sda4 848 1965 759560 83 Linux native Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant. Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
