On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:29:45PM +0000, Fred Barnes wrote: > I've been setting up debian MIPS on my indy. It previously had > irix installed (until I blasted the partition table types and fsck'd > /dev/sda1). When it came to doing the dvhtool thing to put the kernel > image in the volume header, it failed with a "no room in vh" error. > Mostly OK, since there's an old IRIX thingie in there which I > no longer need/want, but how to delete it ? I tried putting the > kernel in under the same name as the SGI thing, "sgilabel" iirc, > but still disagreed. I think there was "ide" and "sash" in there > as well, which are sort of no longer needed either, i guess (having > sash might be useful tho, saves having to plug in that scsi cd-rom..).
I saw the exact same problem when I tried to install woody/sid on my indy. I talked to someone about the problem, and he suggested that I run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda to basically wipe the whole drive and then let Debian's fdisk write a new sgi disklabel in its "expert" mode, then do partitioning as usual. This allowed me to use dvhtool successfully. After you do that, you'll want to setenv OSLoadPartition /dev/sda1 in your prom, so Linux can boot without needing attendance. Without that you'd have to specify 'linux root=/dev/sda1' in the prom, which sucks. Good luck. -- wca
