Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:41:52 +0100 (CET) From: Sebastian Moeller <sebastian.moeller@lur.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101041027110.15151-100000@lx42.lur.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: [suse-axp] newbie with 7.0 on DS20 / SRM
Hello Mark!
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> I just got my 7.0 package from SuSE. Going by the book I'm not able
> to even partition my scsi disks. Via Yast I get as far as partition-
> ing the disk. It's a 4.3GB scsi. Starting block set to 3 and ending
> block to +1000m I get "some error occured". After this happens the
> CD will not even boot back up. It will hang during the scsi controller
> and device check. The only way to get it to boot again is to boot
> up Dec unix and partition the disk with that OS. I've been using
This might be the cause of your problem, as DEC unix disklabels
differ slightly from alphalinux disklabels. Have a look in
http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/x661.html for how to set up a shared disk
between both systems. Other documents of interest might be
http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/documentation/alphalinux-2-0-2.pdf
and
http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/documentation/linux_install.pdf.
Especially the following section might be appropriate:
Reusing a previously installed hard drive
In some rare cases, you may find yourself needing to install onto a disk
drive that has previously
been installed to. It is important that you re-create the boot records on
the drive. If you followed
the rest of the instructions in this manual, you will have allocated the
first three sectors of the
drive for this purpose. Assuming that is the case, you can destroy the
contents of those sectors
prior to installing, using this command:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/TdZ count=2 bs=512
where T is the type of drive, s for SCSI or h for IDE; and Z is the letter
of the drive you are using;
ex: dka0=sda, dqa0=hda.
> SuSE on x86 machines for a couple of years now and
figured it would
> be easy with yast. Whats the magic trick they don't tell you in the
> book? Oh I using SRM to boot the CD. The command is a little different
> than the book says "boot dka500 -fl 0". The book says dka600? Do I
> need to pass any paramaters to the scsi controller. How do I partition
Again it is advisable to check the compaq documentation to get
the preliminary stuff right, maybe the jumpstart CD might help you to set
up your disk partitions right.
> my scsi disk????
>
This hints probably won't solve your problem (and I probably do
not know what I am talking about) but anyway good luck...
Sebastian Moeller
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