On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:01:29PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 8.III.2004 22:38 at Nicholas Breen wrote: > > The partitioning tool proved troublesome. > > - Default partition table selection should be 'dvh'. > > I think in partman it is 'dvh'.
At least as of version 17 (most recent on my mirror of choice), it defaults to the top of the list, 'bsd'. > Is it possible to use parted to create partition table on SGI? If > yes, then it must be possible to use partman. Otherwise partman > should not be used on SGI. Not readily so. There are two problems: first, although parted can create a dvh volume label, it incorrectly creates the volhdr as partition 1. The SGI's PROM assumes that it will be booting from partition 9. There is a painfully inefficent but scriptable workaround documented here: http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/SGI-BootCD-HOWTO.shtml (Summary of the link: Create 8 dummy partitions plus the 9th volhdr partition, delete the dummy partitions, and resize 9 into place.) The second problem is the incorrect assignment of filesystem type. parted only creates new partitions as type 0x03 (SGI raw) rather than 0x82 or 0x83, and I haven't found any way other than fdisk to correct that. -- Nicholas Breen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
