Re: funky drive size?

[Marie J. Myers]

In my message number msg00079.html Tue, 18 Jan 2000 I stated a lot of
problems, one was a miss reported  hard drive paramaters;  but received
no suggestions.

--The autoconfigure hard drive settings were way off, not one setting
correct.

I'll give Eric's suggestions a try to see if it works on my SS1's and
report back.

Thanks

Peter Myers

Re: funky drive size?

[Eric Delaunay]

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.

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Re: funky drive size?

[Jeff Layton]

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
> 
> 
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funky drive size?

[AJ Prowant]

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