On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Mark Nelson wrote: > I've just installed OpenBSD 3.8 on an SGI O2, somehow by accident I have > deleted partition p and therefore the machine will not boot into > OpenBSD. How do I re-create partition P?
It's been a while, but I once made this mistake too. To recover, you'll need an IRIX cd set. Just boot from the bootable cd in this set. You'll then have the option to initialize a fresh disk (don't know how it's called anymore); that will recreate the P partition, among other things (it also creates an XFS filesystem if I recall correctly). Sorry I can't give you a more exact description of what to do; I just remember that I fixed this problem once by using an IRIX cd set, and I didn't fully reinstall IRIX. Good luck, Sebastiaan Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
