-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello again,
>> - if it really bails out at this else clause this means, that there >> is no /proc/ide/$sys_hda/settings >> so perhaps only the variable $sys_hda has to be corrected > > I dont know much about the scsi system, ... > I was not able to find any > 'settings' file for the disk (similar to the IDEs).. > I will see whats inside $sys_hda tomorrow. Sorry, my fault, as Peter pointed out: you have to set AHCI/normal mode instead of combined mode in BIOS to get /proc/ide/hda ... (just a guess, no thinkpad here) >> - perhaps we could trick parted to use the right heads/sectors by >> using $LEGACY_BIOS_HEAD heads and $LEGACY_BIOS_SECT > > yep!! How? .. is the question.. if, and only if, you have /proc/ide/hda/settings you can trick parted to use these settings if parted is called double: first time to blank the disk, and second time to create new partitions, as Patrick stated here http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-07/msg00030.html > >> BTW: did you try e.g. >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=2000 >> and reboot before starting unattended? > > No, I believe this is the fix for BIOSes that 'adapt' geometry to whatever is > on disk and has a bad mbr on disk. > Thinkpad T60 did not adapt to report 255 heads, 'Legacy BIOS' still reported > 240 heads. That's the question, if parted and/or the bios read the wrong values from the disk. I would give dd a try. Perhaps it would be easier if the suggestion in this thread http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-08/msg00063.html would have been implemented in parted, but I didn't found anything further about that. Falko -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRJBG2IkcY98goEs/AQJNigf+OKVBET0OiezK810VOUDowTQP4Bf3hcwg Okg8emOViTxYDnSRVmwQCoZqi39W4VqH4MjztTqBfOu5tKcN6pzj2hd4m/fhhgE4 eozUfk238RKAUyodhci+SMsdFzDdkXEgYy1gGNQR7wwSd1cSfhOEYjoiNSo6UAhP HvFTv2YQr/RQ4VsRtDk+wWTndks79u/99bJu6o86sP2SHQ9dPKT/lPQ0MxQJzsda sF5jhjPGYkJXWXWkXzhe8bm0FKP8BX/04Wp5kMkEgtjxfl55xDs/OW2qo7Vkkdnd afyZvRju6W/EOMHfsw0M83rdZgS+vhPODk9qSTpE0tLub7x3wvbtRQ== =WU7x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
