Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:58:07 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20010510175807.A24912@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Continuing install woes
On Thu, May 10, Bob Schaefer wrote:
> Okay, since nobody bothered to respond to my last e-mail, I've since
> had some time to play with the machines again. I now have the nfs thing
> down to a science and have that and tftp working quite well. My problem
> is related to the SCSI disk I have in the machine. Its a Seagate 2Gig
> disk inside the box setup as device 0. Since I'm unfamilliar with SCSI,
> could this be causing a problem? Basically what's happening is the disk
> originally contained a DOS partition, which I was able to delete under
> Suse, but whenever it attempts to write a partition, it times out for
> some reason. Is there a setting I'm missing or something else? I know
> it doesn't have a SUNLabel on the disk, but I can't seem to figure out
> how to get enough of a working system to tell fdisk to write one.
Hm, I don't have this problems here with a DOS partition, but what you can
do:
Switch to the second console, call "fdisk /dev/sda" or whatever your
SCSI disk is, press "s" to create a new sun label, write it to disk
and reboot to start the new installation. Looks like the current method
doesn't work very well, so I will change it for the next release.
> I've tried starting the rescue system, but I'm running headless and the
> rescue system won't put a login prompt on the serial console. (If
> someone can tell me how to change that, I'd also appreciate that as
> well)
The rescue system does not work over serial console in the moment.
Thorsten
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