Re: funky drive size?
Havent seen this on SPARC's but have occasionally on Intel boxen...you may need to pass drive parameters to the kernel at boot time. Not sure of the specifics of this with sparc's tho... -- Jeff On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, AJ Prowant wrote: I'm trying to install frozen onto my sparc20.. When I tftpboot with the current tftpboot image from marcus.debian.net, the kernel sees my harddrive correctly (as a 2gb drive) but when I try to fdisk it, it only sees it as a 2.8mb drive.. Openbsd had this exact same problem. Netbsd worked fine though.. Has anyone seen anything like this? I tried playing with the expert mode in fdisk, but I cant get it to see all 2gb.. Thanks, AJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: funky drive size?
Jeff Layton wrote: Havent seen this on SPARC's but have occasionally on Intel boxen...you may need to pass drive parameters to the kernel at boot time. Not sure of the specifics of this with sparc's tho... -- Jeff On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, AJ Prowant wrote: I'm trying to install frozen onto my sparc20.. When I tftpboot with the current tftpboot image from marcus.debian.net, the kernel sees my harddrive correctly (as a 2gb drive) but when I try to fdisk it, it only sees it as a 2.8mb drive.. Openbsd had this exact same problem. Netbsd worked fine though.. Has anyone seen anything like this? I tried playing with the expert mode in fdisk, but I cant get it to see all 2gb.. Some infos in the first sector, like #heads, #cylinders... could be wrong. Try fdisk -s /dev/sdX to create a new SUN DiskLabel. Or dd the first sector with full of zeroes (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX count=1) before running fdisk. Hope this helps you. -- Eric Delaunay | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a pas de problème. Devise Shadok.
funky drive size?
I'm trying to install frozen onto my sparc20.. When I tftpboot with the current tftpboot image from marcus.debian.net, the kernel sees my harddrive correctly (as a 2gb drive) but when I try to fdisk it, it only sees it as a 2.8mb drive.. Openbsd had this exact same problem. Netbsd worked fine though.. Has anyone seen anything like this? I tried playing with the expert mode in fdisk, but I cant get it to see all 2gb.. Thanks, AJ
