On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I am enjoying partial success with installing sparc64 on ultrasparc T5140. > used installer cd from last may. interesting > glitch is that system when booted doesn't see any partitioning of the > drives -- only LVM volume for the / is available > this precludes enabling swaps and mounting /boot > here is how it looks:
> root@sparky:/tmp# fdisk -l /dev/sd[ab] > Disk /dev/sda: 136.7 GiB, 146810536448 bytes, 286739329 sectors > Geometry: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17848 cylinders > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disklabel type: sun > Device Start End Sectors Size Id Type Flags > /dev/sda1 0 267193079 267193080 127.4G fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/sda2 267193080 269153009 1959930 957M 1 Boot > /dev/sda3 0 286728119 286728120 136.7G 5 Whole disk > /dev/sda4 269153010 286728119 17575110 8.4G 82 Linux swap > >...< > root@sparky:/tmp# ls -ld /dev/sd* > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 26 09:28 /dev/sda > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Jan 26 09:28 /dev/sdb > any clues how to mitigate or what is possibly wrong? any ideas on how to mitigate this problem would be most welcome! -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
