Thank you, Neil:
Neither of these worked:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. When I try to install a
new partition, it wants to install a disklabel. The attempt fails.
What I don't understand---this happened after installing Sabayon on
/dev/hda8. The first time I downloaded sabayon (mini x86) the md5sum
was incorrect, but the install tried to work. The second time, with a
correct md5sum, I tried to install on /dev/hda1, with errors on that
partition. Then, I reinstalled on /dev/hda8. The install seemed to
go really quickly, perhaps TOO quickly. Then, ever since rebooting,
the system knows there's a disk. But something isn't right.
I am starting to wonder whether a virus or trojan was hitchhiking on
the blown iso download? Very seldom does wget fail. I think the
download may have been resumed from a different mirror.
I don't know where to go from here. Maybe try some other install cds.
Maybe back to a gentoo CD.
Thank you again.
Alan
On 12/23/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +0000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It
> could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and
> boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size.
Try running cfdisk with the -z option. This ignores the MBR and starts
afresh with a blank one. If that fails, try zeroing the MBR with
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1
If it still fails, it would appear to be a broken disk.
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Neil Bothwick
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solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
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