FYI :
The fdisk utility on Fedora Core 4 has no idea really how to deal
with the partitions on my Genesi ODW :
[root at ppc ~]# fdisk /dev/hda
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or
OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help): q
Also .. parted barely works but hits a bug with sector sizes other
than 512 bytes :
[root at ppc ~]# parted /dev/hda
GNU Parted 1.6.22
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Using /dev/hda
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes
Disk label type: amiga
Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags
1 2.000 99.975 dhx boot
2 99.976 199.951 ext3 dhx
3 199.951 38166.679 dhx lvm
(parted) select /dev/hdc
Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc
has been opened read-only.
You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to
bug-parted at gnu.org containing the version (1.6.22), and the following
message:
The sector size on /dev/hdc is 2048 bytes. Parted is known not to work properly
with drives with sector sizes other than 512 bytes
Ignore/Cancel? Cancel
Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc
has been opened read-only.
Using /dev/hdc
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-642.914 megabytes
Disk label type: mac
Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags
1 0.000 0.001 Apple
2 0.008 642.621 PBOOT
(parted) quit
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
I am looking at parted-1.6.24 now and working to get GRUB2 onto a
secondary harddisk such that I can boot a ported OpenSolars kernel
from a secondary disk. I have GRUB 1.91 working ( more or less ) on
my Genesi ODW now and the pictures can be seen of various things here
:
http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/grub/grub_1.91/
Dennis
