Message-ID: <3A544AA7.2CF160EC@cfl.rr.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 05:04:23 -0500 From: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com> Subject: Re: [suse-axp] newbie with 7.0 on DS20 / SRM
Sebastian Moeller wrote:
>
> 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...
>
Thank you, this looks promising. When I get to work I'll look into it
deeper. I've also just discoverd that I can get to a shell from within
yast (alt-f1)/(alt-f2) to use fdisk -b /dev/sda to do the partitining
of BSD lables manually. I'll print out those links and READ them when
I get to work. Thanks again..
-- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com
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