Re: [suse-sparc] Unsupported partition table

From: Kai Dittmann (kd@devnull.de)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 14:22:02 PDT

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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:22:02 +0200
From: Kai Dittmann <kd@devnull.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Unsupported partition table

    At 14:55 01.04.01 -0600, you wrote:
    >Greeting all
    >
    >I have a SparcStation IPX I am trying to load SuSE
    >Linux on. One of the drives on the SCSI bus is a
    >Seagate Elite9 9GB Hard drive, mounted in a 811 box.
    >I previously used this drive on my Linux PC. The
    >install keeps telling me that "The disk has an
    >unsupported partition table, please re-partition."
    >I keep changing the partition table and I keep getting
    >the same results. What am I doing wrong?????

            maybe you can try to repartition this drive
            by hand... had the same trouble on a classic.

            boot manually, with yast1. switch to the second
            console, and run fdisk by hand. create a empty
            sun disklabel.

            reboot the box, the same way, then run fdisk
            again and repart the drive again to your own
            favorite partitions sizes.

            this was the one and only way i got my
            classic up'n running...

            hope this helps.

            cheers,
            --- kai

    >The system is an IPX w/ PowerUp, 2GB drive internally,
    >9GB drive externally. Is there any other data that I
    >should provide from my IPX?? Please let me know.
    >
    >One more thing I was given this IPX; and I am new to
    >the world of Sparcs.
    >--
    >
    >Thanks
    >Walter L. Williams
    >
    >

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