Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Is this some sort of LVM thing creeping in? I don't use it but I see signs of it starting to show up on my systems like something is making it come in with new profiles or something. Some lvm tools/packages have replaced

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Montag 08 Februar 2010 01:27:59 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello again List, $ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at the moment. Google doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 01:27:33 Mark Knecht wrote: sorry to have forgotten is but simply do df and see what it says is mounted $ df Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs            

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: 3) A long time ago, there was a bios option for bootsector-protection, I've never tried this, and I also don't have any idea whether linux sees that in any way. If there is such an option, disable it.

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Stroller
When is a disk not a disk? According to Dell: when you source it from a 3rd-party. http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-February/041274.html http://tinyurl.com/yer7n9o Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 15:02:51 Mark Knecht wrote: Did you intend to have 3 100MB partitions at the start of your drive and then everything else inside of an extended partition? It's not wrong - it was just unexpected for me. I did, but I think I'll revert to just a single boot partition.

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 07:02:51 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Is this some sort of LVM thing creeping in? I don't use it but I see signs of it starting to show up on my systems like something is making it come in with new profiles or something. I don't know how LVM works but I assume that rootfs

[gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello again List, $ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at the moment. Google doesn't help. The box is a new Armari system with an Asus P7P55D

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello again List, $ sudo  fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at the

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello again List, $ sudo  fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 00:46:33 Mark Knecht wrote: What's in dmesg when the machine boots? See attachment. Is it possible an older driver got loaded and it's showing up as hda instead of sda? I found that on one of my machines recently. I hope not. This is a new installation on a new

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 01:27:33 Mark Knecht wrote: sorry to have forgotten is but simply do df and see what it says is mounted $ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 60G 25G 32G 44% / /dev/root 60G 25G 32G 44% /