Re: Partitioning Disks on DS20

[Larry Sendlosky <larry scrugs lkg dec com>]

  I've seen this when the disk in question already some sort
  of BSD label on it and for some reason fdisk doesn't like
  the disk drive parameters (sect/track etc). I've solved this
  2 different ways (actually 3, but using another Unix system
  is cheating).
 
  1) Some how get 'dd' onto the system and 'dd of=/dev/sdx
    if=/dev/null bs=2048K'
 
  2) In fdisk, the BSD menu, do E for edit and input the correct
     numbers for the drive (after clearing the partitions).

  Hope this helps

  larry

 

> Hi.
> After struggling to get the system booted under RH6.0, I find that fdisk
> does not seem to be functioning properly.  I have been following the
> instructions from the Compaq ActiveAnswers web site but these don't seem to
> work.
> 
> fdisk appears to create partition extents with cylinder numbers I do not
> enter.  For example, if I try to create BSD partition a from 3-50 it does
> that.  However, if I try to create partition b from 51-1024 it assigns to
> some inconsistent range.
> 
> Either fdisk is not working or I am missing something big.
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> cheers.
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 Larry Sendlosky			 	            AMT
 larry@scrugs.lkg.dec.com (978) 506-6640                    Compaq
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