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 1JVuMm-0000pG-SR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:01:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DC3CE0A85; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 20:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BDCE0A81 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 20:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c29so4766878ika.2 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:00:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:from; bh=YpLJ+SOqc0rfjIi27j5v4txtK71Sd4XshW3uQc/njQc=; b=h17WXs6/fKjKIX7Jxy/Fv0ZuVg3VAEKOX1jquc2daaphwNgUaLgt+86ubR/KOB0T/YfRLNABg13BUW3zAv0v9pKlpqMfwYG5qGjdZNJjx5UJZDOLlPInbSIZHd0BOKwYmMmlhffnQ3c9xib9gcFJm6+3IPr0YqlosotOXdVgf7o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:from; b=YXzMw6wTonM/SJH4J1YdgRmVs7Wkftm2Od6zBMRauBc6ocWAFTtBKKYRPA3NI5z+G0D9ar2ZJgGXFZenpnaP5sUdBqABIsF0/TKWi+0Qj0uKKGCJ0Hj5kjeFjHk1vLTBjTSzMzcHlCSmUo1MVYDeEJp5F3OOChckyxNGPOGxLQQ= Received: by 10.78.164.9 with SMTP id m9mr16375482hue.30.1204488032074; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:00:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ( [84.38.13.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y6sm29141183mug.1.2008.03.02.12.00.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:00:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:00:27 +0200 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard Message-ID: <20080302200027.GA5358@Vereniki.lan> References: <1204472839.5568.11.camel@ratlos> <20080302161110.GA4380@Vereniki.lan> <1204475637.5568.15.camel@ratlos> <1204486455.5568.26.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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1204486455.5568.26.camel@ratlos> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) From: Panagiotis Christopoulos X-Archives-Salt: a592eef8-4048-48f7-8053-13874dbe0a56 X-Archives-Hash: 4a7b9bd71edc6abd5d047dfb5d9a9f4c On 20:34 Sun 02 Mar , Karin Willers wrote: > Any comments?? > > The Gentoo documentation seems not to be in sync with the actual > fdisk command options ... > If you follow the handbook as it is, you should end to something like, Neo ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8682 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sda1 boot 51 101 104448 83 Linux native 2: /dev/sda2 swap 102 1079 2002944 82 Linux swap 3: /dev/sda3 1080 1748 1370112 83 Linux native 4: /dev/sda4 1749 8681 14198784 83 Linux native 9: /dev/sda5 0 50 104448 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda6 0 8681 17780736 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: btld3r sector 4 size 73684 Follow exactly the instructions in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-mips.xml?part=1&chap=4 , the section "Getting the SGI Volume Header to just the right size". After that I think that you will be fine. Use the dd command to delete the partition table, and start again. Panagiotis -- gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org mailing list