Re: Creating a GPT tab

2021-01-25 Thread Jason Mitchell
On 1/24/21 11:52 PM, Brook Milligan wrote: The drive I am trying to replicate manually is from an evbmips (octeon) system that is working fine and was (more or less) created by NetBSD tools for a release. This is key information. I'm guessing, in the past, that the hpcmips boot loader

Re: Creating a GPT tab

2021-01-24 Thread Brook Milligan
> On Jan 24, 2021, at 4:50 PM, Robert Elz wrote: > >Date:Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:12:20 -0800 >From:John Nemeth >Message-ID: <202101242212.10omckhx022...@server.cornerstoneservice.ca> > > | The tools won't replicate this, nor should they, as it is a > |

Re: Creating a GPT tab

2021-01-24 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:12:20 -0800 From:John Nemeth Message-ID: <202101242212.10omckhx022...@server.cornerstoneservice.ca> | The tools won't replicate this, nor should they, as it is a | seriously broken setup. To fix this setup, delete MBR parition 0.

Re: Creating a GPT tab

2021-01-24 Thread John Nemeth
On Jan 24, 11:49, Brook Milligan wrote: } } I am trying to create GPT partitions that are the same as the following: } } # fdisk sd0 } fdisk: Cannot determine the number of heads } Disk: /dev/rsd0 } NetBSD disklabel disk geometry: } cylinders: 118152, heads: 64, sectors/track: 32 (2048

Re: Creating a GPT tab

2021-01-24 Thread Robert Elz
Hmm, in my previous reply I missed the 0 MBR partition. That one is weird. That's a duplicate spec of the first GPT partition (the windows GPT partition) - which I assume is there to allow ancient windows systems, and other things that understand MBRs, to find that partition without

Re: Creating a GPT tab

2021-01-24 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:49:09 -0700 From:Brook Milligan Message-ID: <818cc659-27b2-4207-94e2-a14c9579f...@nmsu.edu> | I am trying to create GPT partitions that are the same as the following: | The complicating factor is that there is an MBR in sector 0 and the

Creating a GPT tab

2021-01-24 Thread Brook Milligan
I am trying to create GPT partitions that are the same as the following: # fdisk sd0 fdisk: Cannot determine the number of heads Disk: /dev/rsd0 NetBSD disklabel disk geometry: cylinders: 118152, heads: 64, sectors/track: 32 (2048 sectors/cylinder) total sectors: 241975296, bytes/sector: 512