Hi all,
It's exam time again and that means procastination time - as such I recently attempted to build gentoo again on my O2 using kumbas netboot kernel :
ip32-r5k-20050128.img
and the boot command of bootp():root=/dev/ram0
This has REALLY not gone well thus far.
1) Nano wont open, returning the message: cannot open libncurses something something .so
My Fault. I keep forgetting to fix the bloody thing. Might be regenerating a new netboot in a few days/next week to resolve this.
Busybox 'vi' is included as a workaround, even though that's a rather cruel thing to use.
2) Fdisk is behaving rather strangely only allowing me to build partitions backwards ie from 1016 (4.5 gb disk) down. If I attempt to make a partition from 1 - 100 ,say, the next time I ask for a new partition it gives the the start point of (1-0) and refuses any further input!!!!
fdisk was given an 'R' rating by the MPAA for Horrific Scenes of Code, and Graphic Portrayals of Violence by its users.
Specificially stated, it b0rks up often, and usually without reason. Trick #1, is wipe the disk partition table out with this command (Often referred to as the "Nuclear Option"):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
Then re-create the SGI Disklabel (Under eXpert menu), and see if that lets you work fine. You may have to delete the Volume Header partition and re-create that to make it larger (and it sometimes avoids the 1-0 start cylinder issue).
3) After working in the stupid backwards way to get myself a boot,swap and main
partition, with of course the SGI volhdr and volume it now refuses to mount. The command
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo (mounting my main partition on the gentoo area) it returns a file or directory not found error, even though fdisk printout shows that sda3 exits.
Forget to format the partition? :)
You may also need to reboot to make the kernel pick up on the partitions, which seems to be a new thing AFAICT, as I didn't have to deal with that before. Again, blame fdisk.
--Kumba
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