RE: write permissions for /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ boot

Hi

Got mine to work, used dd /dev/zero (only boot partition) and then mkefs.
Mounted fine as /mnt/gentoo/boot (empty !!)

Darrell

PS, lots of others have had this problem using the LiveCD, look in
forums.gentoo.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Cade Call [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent:	October 16, 2002 4:59 PM
> To:	[email protected]
> Subject:	RE: [gentoo-newbies] write permissions for /dev/hda1
> /mnt/gentoo/boot
> 
> I've encountered the same problem before. I had to use an old debug
> routine
> to low level format the disk. You could also try dd.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Michael S Sprague
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [gentoo-newbies] write permissions for /dev/hda1
> /mnt/gentoo/boot
> 
> 
> Hey there,
> 
> Again I would like to express thanks to all folks who are expressing
> interest in this and offering ideas, help, etc.
> 
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> Darrell Fleming wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a similar problem, discovered late last night when trying to
> install
> 1.4rc1 on an old windows PII system.
> 
> Boot CD, fdisk the hda1 (boot) hda2 (swap) and hda3 (/), also hdb1 (usr),
> then mke2fs -j on all but swap.  Makes with out errors.  Mount as per
> directions, download stage1 tar ball to /mnt/gentoo and untar.  Same
> errors
> at /boot/boot symlink.
>  I looked at the /boot partition with df and found it full !!  cd to it
> and
> ls, it was full of windows files !!.  Started again, unmount /boot and
> mke2fs -j, mount it and windows files still there.
> 
> I then repartitioned the whole hda drive to one partition and shutdown and
> rebooted and started again, end result, the windows files are still there
> in
> /boot and the partition is tagged read-only and I can't manually delete
> them.
> 
> Odd thing is that the old files all were removed correctly on the other
> partitions and drives.
> 
> The only odd thing about this hd is that it was originally partitioned
> with
> partition magic and this area of the drive was hidden.
> 
> I'll be trying again late tonight.
> 
> I've successfully installed Gentoo on other systems, all v1.2
> 
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> Michael S. Sprague again
> 
> ok this is the machine I am trying to run gentoo on:
> 
> ABIT AT model AB IT-5H rev 1.01
> Award v4.51PG (2A59FA1D)
> Pentium MMX CPU at 233
> 128 sdram pc 100
> Hard drive: Fujitsu MPD3084AT 8.43 MB
> Hard drive: IBM DCAA-34330 4.3 MB
> Adaptec 2930CU scsi card
> Ricoh MP6200 cd-rw (scsi)
> Plextor 12/20 Plex cd-rw (scsi)
> HP Scanjet 3c (scsi)
> 3com 3C509B-TX XL PCI
> Number Nine 9FXMotion 771 video
> Voodoo 3DFX Obsidian2 X-24 3d accelerator
> 
> NOW: this is similar to experiences I have had using the cfdisk utility
> found on the image cd(s). I am wondering if it related to the fact that we
> were both attempting to install using machines with older an older bios.
> 
> I also found some windows files on one of the hard drives I was using
> after
> performing the cfdisk operation. Please do not attempt to clean off your
> drive completely and then reboot it without any partitions configured
> using
> the cfdisk program. I did that, woe is me 8-(, now I have 2 drives that
> have
> no entry in the bios cmos setup and I can't figure out how to return them.
> I
> will get into that in a minute.
> 
> After I discovered the windows files I removed all the cfdisk partitions.
> Then rebooted to a Win98 Startup disk and ran the Microsoft version of
> fdisk
> supplied on the floppy disk. I deleted all the DOS 6.X partitions on the
> disk then rebooted to the image cd a remade the partitions using cfdisk,
> and
> initialized them according to the install instructions. Great, things were
> looking better. I could no longer see the windows files.
> 
> I did the pci-setup and net-setup eth0 and they worked great. I then made
> the directories and mounted them according to the install .html. When I
> untarred I got the same error exit message.
> tar: ./boot/boot Can not write to '.': Read only filesystem.
> 
> This made me believe that either I had to mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
> some other way or I had made a mistake and not followed the instructions
> properly. I could not believe that I hadn't followed the instructions
> properly because I have done it at least 20 times or so in the past 3 days
> with the same exit error. So, I thought, "what else could be wrong? Is
> there
> something wrong with the hard drive? Should I switch them around? So I
> did.
> 
> In fact I switched them back and forth several times. Changing one to
> master
> then to slave and vice versa. Also changing there positions on the ide
> cable
> from 0 to 1. I would get errors at boot up from bios that "Primary master
> hard drive fail", or "Primary slave hard drive fail" or both depending
> upon
> which position the drives were in on the ide cable. So I checked the bios.
> 
> Up to this point I could still see the drives in cfdisk when booting form
> the image cd. At this point in time both of the drives had all of their
> partitions removed from the Microsoft fdisk program and all of their
> partitions removed using the cfdisk program on the image cd. I had
> rebooted
> a few times to update the drive tables and could still see them in cfdisk
> and fdisk even though they were bare.
> 
> I realized that the reason I was getting the "Primary master hard drive
> fail" and "Primary slave hard drive fail" messages was due to the bios
> settings now being reversed, so I decided to reverse them in bios.
> 
> When I entered the new settings into bios and rebooted I could no longer
> see
> either of the drives. I believe that if I had at least one partition from
> either fdisk or cfdisk on I would have been ok. I have not been able to
> recover them as of yet. So, whatever you do, don't change your bios
> settings
> if your don't have any partitions on the drive. It will become
> unrecognizable to the bios. I may be able to put them into another machine
> with a newer bios and let them be auto detected, not too sure about this
> one. If they are ok I should be able to format using the Microsoft fdisk
> program and put them back into the Linux box after they have had some
> thing
> put on them so the older bios can see it.
> 
> Michael S. Sprague
> [email protected]
> Registered Linux User: 290220
> 
> "Wisdom pretended is folly maintained,
> Ignorance admitted is wisdom begun,,,"
> 
> 
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