Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 01:26:12 +0200 (MEST) From: Ralph Hellmig <ralph.hellmig@tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.43.0205030125450.13670-100000@ra.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Subject: [suse-sparc] Question: SuSE 7.3 / fdisk / Ultra 1
Hi ...
I tried to install SuSE 7.3 on an old Ultra 1,
but I suffer from a problem I found in the suse mailing
list archive again and again, even with kind of answers,
but they still seem not to help me ...
I have two Seagate SCSI HDDs with about 2 GB in that machine,
but am new to SCSI architecture and SPARC, but using
SUSE on PC starting with 5.2 ...
The installation using YAST 2 does not continue
after giving me the already famous message: invalid
partition table, I have to re-partition ...
I tried this using fdisk with the sun disklabel, but after
writing the changes are gone ... When I try to do fdisk
again, the system seems to get hung, if gives an error message
that the block size is not 512 but 1863323648 in case of /dev/sda
for /dev/sdb the number is different
I tried to use the expert mode in Yast2 to delete the
old (corrupted) partition table, the system gets some kind
of stalled (pressing ctrl+alt+F4 I can see somethings like:
VFS: growth_buffers: size 1863323648)...
I found several answers to this kind of problem in the list,
but only using the SuSE7.3 Cds I did not find a solution ...
I would appreciate any comment which will enlighten me in my
stupidity ...
Greetings,
Ralph
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Dr. Ralph Hellmig
Institut fuer Werkstoffkunde und Werkstofftechnik
Agricolastr. 6
38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Tel.: 05323/72-2748
email: ralph.hellmig@tu-clausthal.de
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