Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:51:10 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0111161435410.1723-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] extra IDE drives, and Ultra-10's
At Sat, 17 Nov 2001 it looks like Peter Cheney composed:
pchene->Hi,
pchene->
pchene->Looks to me like the boot device is set to boot from slice f of the disk/cd...are you sure this is correct?
Well "Murphy's Law" just kicked in, the cdrom just flaked on me. I
swapped in another cdrom and the replacement worked fine, the
current one registers fine with "probe-ide" but won't read anything.
They are shipping me a new one now.
Since this morning I have used Linux's fdisk to add the label to the
second drive while it's booted as /dev/hdb in preparation for using
is as the host of a dual boot, here is the output.
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8892 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 r 1 55 25515 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 u 56 610 261765 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 611 8892 3912772+ 83 Linux native
Disk /dev/hdb (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 59554
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
There was a one strange part using the "s" option and then "0"
"0 custom (with hardware detected defaults)"
The fdisk walked me through the detected defaults and things seemed
fine except the original Linux install ended up with 15 heads on the
first drive and the fdisk defaulted to 16 on the second drive, I
could of course typed in any value I wanted but went with the
defaults detected which seemed to line up with what the drive was
orginally.
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