At 04:46 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Liz Dunbar wrote:
>20GB second disk is installed, fdisk'd according to directions (we
>thought.)We thought we made 12GB and 8GB partitions, but dmesg says hdb
>unknown partition table. What did we do miss? What do we do next? (Server
>still works.)
Yeah, it should still work, since you haven't used hdb for anything yet. My
memory of the details of your setup are a bit hazy, but I wonder if you are
using a kernel old enough that one of the following is true:
-- it has problems with drives over 8 gB in size
-- it has problems with partitions over 8 bB in size
I had similar problems trying to use a 13 gig drive in one of my hosts here;
I "fixed" it by treating the drive as a 8-gig drive and it's been working
fine within that constraint. As others have noted, the 8-gig limit is not IN
GENERAL a problem with modern Linuxes, but there do appear to be some
combinations of hardware and kernel that run into it.
Can you read the partition table with fdisk? Have you tried to make
filesystems (with mke2fs) on either partition?
Were I in your place, I'd try re-partitioning the drive (with fdisk or
cfdisk, whichever you like better) but limit myself to creating a couple of
partitions in the first 8 gigs of its space. No guarantees, but it might
work for you.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
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