On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:43, Dave Love wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No big deal. Eat the disk label by using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd?? > > count=1 bs=1M in the installer's spare command console; then recreate > > it with the parted partition editor. > > Parted and fdisk both produce bad labels as far as Solaris is > concerned. However, I think I just potted the problem. The same sort > of disk in another machine running Solaris reports: > > Volume name = < > > ascii name = <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107> > pcyl = 24622 > ncyl = 24620 > acyl = 2 > nhead = 27 > nsect = 107 > > whereas the fdisk-created one has > > Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 27 heads, 107 sectors, 10025 rpm > 24622 cylinders, 2 alternate cylinders, 24624 physical cylinders > > i.e. it seems to be confusing cylinders and physical cylinders. I'm > not sure whether parted chose these or whether I was confused in > copying them from the Solaris version when I re-labelled. However, > the disk was originally running Solaris and got trashed by the > installer when I added the linux partitions. > > The fdisk `c' and `y' commands don't actually work to change these. > `p' shows new values, but `w' doesn't actually save them.
I had the same problem exactly with my 73Gb drives in the 'blade 1k - I couldn't get the CHS settings to change and stay put after a reset. Kill off the "whole disk" partition, exit fdisk, restart fdisk, set the CHS, write the partition table back to disk, restart fdisk, recreate partition 3 (whole disk), write the partition table back to disk, restart fdisk, create your desired partitions, etc.... Long laborious process, but it worked for me on the 1K. Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
