From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2ohb-0004qs-Vu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:38:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 155ACE0522; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server342-han.de-nserver.de (server342-han.de-nserver.de [85.158.176.233]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A152CE0522 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:38:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17219 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2008 16:38:17 +0200 Received: from p5798AF65.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO [192.168.0.1]) (87.152.175.101) (smtp-auth username karin@visti.de, mechanism plain) by server342-han.de-nserver.de (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTPA; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:38:17 +0200 Subject: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard - Which installation image to use? From: Karin Willers To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1205014480.5529.17.camel@ratlos> References: <1204472839.5568.11.camel@ratlos> <20080302161110.GA4380@Vereniki.lan> <1204475637.5568.15.camel@ratlos> <1204486455.5568.26.camel@ratlos> <20080302200027.GA5358@Vereniki.lan> <1204924062.5500.5.camel@ratlos> <224833D6-999B-4CE0-B8B6-FC28CCB823A2@miriup.de> <1205014480.5529.17.camel@ratlos> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:38:20 +0200 Message-Id: <1212331100.5637.25.camel@ratlos> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-User-Auth: Auth by karin@visti.de through 87.152.175.101 X-Archives-Salt: 29acdfe2-b8b1-4e12-8ed1-53b42125f7ee X-Archives-Hash: 996f74c5e70d9fb6806cac85a0778003 Hello All, after some delay to get back to the project, I managed to fdisk the drive with an SCA-to-SCSI adapter on another machine, but now new problems show up. I downloaded two boot images which have a different behavior: ip30-r10k+-20050530.img is able to mke2fs the partition and mount properly (although the documentation is wrong, since the root directory of the ramdisk is mounted read only, so I'm using /tmp instead), but networking does not work. Ifconfig seems to work, but a ping to a machine in the local network does not succeed. ip30-r10k+-20050820.img is good for networking (i.e. ifconfig is ok and pinging a remote machine like www.gentoo.org works), but mounting the partitions of the hard disk does not work, showing the following error message: / # mount /dev/sda3 /tmp/gentoo mount: Mounting /dev/sda3 on /tmp/gentoo failed: Input/output error / # These boot images seem to be a little bit outdated, aren't they? So here my questions: 1. Has anyone noticed similar things? 2. Are there newer boot images available? 3. As previously asked, what is the format of the .img file? 4. Is there active development done on IP30s? Thanks, Karin ----- On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 23:14 +0100, Karin Willers wrote: > Some remarks here: > > My fdisk is v2.12q, which should be able to write SGI disk labels. > > Fdisk worked before erasing the first block of the disk. > > Strangely enough the advice was (as one option) to erase the > the first block and then continue with fdisk. I did not save my > boot block, which obviously was a mistake ... > > I did not find 'parted' on the network booted ram disk and there is > unfortunately no Gentoo live CD for Octane. > > I'll acquire an SCA-to-SCSI adapter to connect the hard disk > to another machine and do the fdisk/parted there. > > Greetings, Karin > ----- > On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 11:37 +0400, Dirk Tilger wrote: > > On 08.03.2008, at 01:07, Karin Willers wrote: > > > > > trying to erase the partition table ended in fdisk not being able > > > to read the disk ... > > > > > > / # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > > > 1+0 records in > > > 1+0 records out > > > / # fdisk /dev/sda > > > > > > Unable to read /dev/sda > > > / # > > > > > > Any hints? What is the procedure under Linux to add a fresh hard disk > > > to an Octane? Browsing the WEB did not reveal anything useful. > > > > Did fdisk work before? fdisk only supports the MBR partition format. > > My guess would be that the SGI firmware (what they would call BIOS on > > a PC) will only read SGI labels. I used to create SGI disklabels with > > `parted` instead of `fdisk`, but the following site suggests that > > there is an fdisk capable of creating SGI disklabels: > > > > http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/SGI-BootCD-HOWTO.shtml > > > > Judging by the man page of fdisk, you might want to go ahead with > > `fdisk -i`. > > Dirk. > -- gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org mailing list